How the Mexican cartels took over the US opioid crisis | DW Documentary
From DW Documentary. The current US opioid epidemic was fueled in what is known as the first wave by the overprescription of painkillers by pharmaceutical companies. In the 1990s, Perdue Pharma introduced OxyContin, a highly addictive painkiller stronger than morphine and earned billions of dollars with it. This triggered a race among dozens of pharmaceutical…







































