Official Trailer for HBO Documentary “The Crime of the Century”

“The Crime of the Century” is an upcoming HBO original documentary that exposes the billions of dollars gained and thousands of lives lost due to the opioid crisis

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The two-part HBO documentary “The Crime of the Century” is directed by Academy Award® Winner Alex Gibney. Part one premieres Monday, May 10th on HBO at 9PM ET/PT. Part two premieres the next day on Tuesday, May 11th, also at 9PM ET. The documentary will be available to stream on HBO Max

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With the help of whistleblowers, insiders, newly-leaked documents, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access to investigations, and featuring expert input from medical professionals, journalists, former and current government agents, attorneys and pharmaceutical sales representatives, as well as sobering testimony from victims of opioid addiction, Gibney’s exposé posits that drug companies are in fact largely responsible for manufacturing the very crisis they profit from, to the tune of billions of dollars…and hundreds of thousands of lives.

Contributing to “The Crime of the Century” part one include author Patrick Radden Keefe; opioid specialist Dr. Andrew Kolodny; former Purdue sales rep. Mark Ross; Stanford addiction specialist Dr. Anne Lembke; Life Tree Pain Clinic founder Dr. Lynn Webster; Roy Bosley, whose wife died of an opioid overdose; author and NY Times reporter Barry Meier; primary care physician Dr. Art Van Zee; former Department of Justice official Paul Pelletier; and EMT Giles Sartin.

Part Two includes insights from former DEA agent Joe Rannazzisi; former DEA attorney Jonathan Novak; The Washington Post reporters Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham and Lenny Bernstein; Assistant U.S. Attorneys for Massachusetts David Lazarus, Nathaniel Yeager and Fred Wyshak; Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Ed Byrne; Resident Agent in Charge Lubbock Office, DEA Will Kimbell; former V.P. of Sales at Insys Alec Burlakoff; former Insys regional sales manager Sunrise Lee; and fentanyl dealer Caleb Lanier.

Woven together, the character-driven stories form a larger narrative of shocking corruption.

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