How the Sackler Family Made Billions From OxyContin

I was injured in 2000. I was on painkillers till 2015 when I lost my health insurance. I did not even know I was addicted till I could not get them anymore. I ended up doing heroin ( same ingredients as the pain killers) to stop the withdrawals. Ended up a heroin addict in 2016 and dead in 2018. I was resuscitated. I was brought back a new person. Been clean almost 6 years and now own a mattress store in Detroit. 8 Mile Mattress. There is hope for you addict.

I’m a retired pharmacist. I graduated the same year as OxyContin. It literally ruined my career because being ethical was a conflict of interest with profit. If you think you can trust our system regarding Covid, you learned nothing from the collective malfeasance of the opioid crisis.

My wife delivered our first baby March 21 2009. She had a c-section and the physician prescribed her 180 pills of OxyContin. At the time, the doctor said, "it's not addictive, don't worry". Thankfully after 2 pills my wife quit and dealt with the pain, because she didn't like how it made her feel. When our second baby was born May 5th 2011, a different doctor prescribed her the exact same amount of Oxy after her second C-Section. She declined and stuck with a high dose of Tylenol. I'm thankful that she didn't get hooked on this stuff, but it makes me wonder how many doctors did the same thing to millions of patients with the same promise of "it's not addictive". There's no way they didn't "know" by 2011. I'm still bitter about it to this day.

My 36 y/o daughter died 11 years ago from an Oxycontin overdose. It was ruled accidental by the medical examiner. She left behind a 2 y/o daughter that will never know what a wonderful loving mother she was. Some people can justify their evil deeds by compartmentalizing.

Lost 6 years of my life to being an oxy zombie. It controlled my every waking moment. Getting clean was an absolute personal hell. I've been clean for 8ish years and swore id never put myself through that again and thank god ive stayed true to that

This warms my heart knowing the Sackler name is FINALLY being publicly shit on. This is a great first step in attempting to hold them accountable.

My mom was on it for a good 4-5 years, finally someone offered her herion instead one day and it put it into perspective and she quit cold turkey, it was 2 weeks of hell and months of screaming and self deprecation for months but now 10 years later she’s opened her own massage practice and is doing great, I’m proud of what’s she’s accomplished finally and can’t wait to see where it goes, as for the sacklers, man I’d pay for a minute alone.

Lost my 32 year old cousin less than a week ago due to an OxyContin addiction turned heroine addiction, she met her end with a fentanyl overdose. It’s wild to read through these comments and bear partial witness to everyone’s stories. Godspeed.

Lost a brother to it in 2013. Started taking it about 6 years earlier for gout and then had his prescription pulled. Turned to heroin and died in my families living room, not a day goes by that I don't wish these monsters would pay for their crimes. miss you always bro.

This no different than Congressmen voting for a lobby then going to work for them after politics. Been happening for 200 years.

“It’s really hard to go to jail if you’ve got a lot of money.” Great quote. I appreciated how the series presented the reality of a street dealer going to jail but kingpins walking.

Joe needs to have an incognito RN on his show. I’ve been an RN for 14 years and the stories I could tell about Oxy, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, etc, would make heads spin. I saw the oxy scam within my first year on the job. I’m certain there are much more experienced RNs out there with even more telling stories too. This documentary they’re referencing is a little too late in the game. Everyone was aware of this over a decade ago yet crickets chirped every time it was brought up. The entire medical system is merely a machine, swimming upstream with bandaid “solutions” that inevitably create much larger problems.

It got me addicted, took 0xys in 98, remember 1st withdraw, next 14 years got high moved on to heron, methadon, and quit on my own, now 10 years clean

I worked as a medical assistant in a hospital for a while and we had lunch catered every single day by different pharmaceutical reps and they were scheduled YEARS out. That's over 200 different drugs being pitched to one small company in one year. Straight gangsters

Possibly the most informative 15minute video I've ever seen. Insane amount of eye-opening information... Kudos to Berg. Well done.

My friend had hernia surgery once. These doctors prescribed him oxy 80’s. The old snortable ones not the new ones. He had a refillable prescription for a minor surgery that lasted him months and months and he got completely hooked……..he’s never been the same.

Gary Ridgway is in jail thinking, I may be the Green River Killer, but at least I'm not a Sackler.

“Its hard to go to jail today if u got a lot of money” sad but astronomically true!

I was 20 in 2007 at the height of the Opiate crisis and was RXd Oxy for a broken leg and several surgeries that came after it. They wanted me taking norco n two Oxy 40s a day. I didn’t even know I was addicted till I ran out one day, thought I had the flu. Spent my 20s on pain pills till I got put on subs n weened off. I was a kid barely outta HS I Had no idea how physically addictive these drugs were or the side effects of you run out , Doctors gave no no guidance or counseling that the drugs were addictive before hand and just kept giving me more and more pills for pain. Everyone was getting a kickback even doctors. And I went to legit family doctors not pill mills or someshit. Absolutely criminal what big pharma did to America during that time span.

This comment section brought me to tears. You are all so strong. We stand with you, together.