The 'Harry Potter' director helms a film about the shadowy pharmaceutical sales practices that helped kickstart the opioid epidemic.
opens with a character differentiating his company’s misdeeds from a familiar pharmaceutical titan: “We’re not Purdue Pharma. We didn’t kill America.” Sure, the employees of Zanna Therapeutics, a fictional drug company, didn’t peddle their opioid painkiller to the same degree as Purdue, but that doesn’t make them any less culpable.
A cavalcade of books, films and television shows have already revealed the greedy foundations of America’s pharmaceutical industry. Patrick Radden Keefe’s book
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