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Opioids III: The Sacklers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight · 6.2M views · 2021-08-09 · 24:00

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John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on the Sackler family and how they have handled opioid lawsuits. It covers how hard they fought to defend their name and is the third of three segments on the opioid crisis.

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Recommended in threads about Purdue and Sackler immunity as a good primer on the issue.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2021–2024

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pagade · 2024-07 · Strong recommendation

I recently watched these 3 episodes of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Highly recommended. Opioids III: The Sacklers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ( [VIDEO] ) Opioids II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ( [LINK] ) Opioids: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ( [LINK] )

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dstick · 2021-12 · Recommendation

Good. For those that haven't watched them yet, there are 3 John Oliver segments on the subject that will back up the "Good." statement: Opioids [LINK] Opioids II [LINK] Opioids III (this one focuses 100% on the Sacklers) [VIDEO]

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reureu · 2021-09 · Recommendation

For anyone that's just getting up to speed on this, John Oliver had a really good video specifically about this issue: [VIDEO]

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