The Peter Attia Drive

#186 - Patrick Radden Keefe: The opioid crisis—origin, guilty parties, and the difficult path forward

Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker and the bestselling author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty . In this episode, Patrick tells the story of the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma - makers of the pain management drug OxyContin, providing the backdrop for the ensuing opioid epidemic and public…