Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic

Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who first exposed the roots of the opioid epidemic and the secretive world of the Sackler family behind Purdue Pharma, Pain Killer is the celebr…

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