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MetroFocus: October 1, 2021
Season 2021
Episode 6240
Tonight, Frontline’s Tom Jennings tells the inside story of the opioids crisis and the people who fueled it, including the Sackler family who the nation now recognizes as the face of the deadly epidemic. We'll discuss his film, "Opioids, Inc." and speak with author Barry Meier, who investigates Purdue Pharma in “Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and The Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic."
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