How the Opioid Crisis Started

<p>Prosecutors, seeking to hold someone accountable for the opioid epidemic, have been targeting doctors, dealers and users themselves. But those who made billions of dollars from sales of OxyContin, a painkiller at the center of the crisis, have gone largely unpunished. Guest: Barry Meier, the author of “<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/575714/pain-killer-by-barry-meier/9780525511106/" target="_blank">Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic</a>,” who has reported on Purdue Pharma and the opioid crisis for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.</p>