Episode 47 - "painKiller"

The final part of our American healthcare series, painKiller brings together everything we've learned the past two weeks and beyond in Ashes Ashes to explore how the opioid crisis was created and how it is perpetuated to fulfill a single ultimate goal: profit. Pharmaceutical companies, the insurance industry, hospitals, doctors, and politicians - all which ostensibly exist to serve the public have instead mostly contributed to our modern day hellscape of pain, addiction, and increasingly death.

This isn't a show about how the end of the world is looming, this is a look at the ugly truth of collapse affecting people all around us right now.

Chapters

• 4:40 Pharma companies create misuse
• 11:25 Pill Mills
• 13:42 The modern day problem
• 19:09 Chronic pain
• 24:18 Physician frustration
• 30:16 Making sense of it all
• 43:21 What can we do?

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