HOW BIG PHARMA CREATED A GENERATION OF OXYCONTEENS IN THE US
Frank Morris was only 23 when he ended up in rehab. But he was already a full-blown junkie, smoking crack on the streets of San Francisco, and nearly losing his left arm after accidentally pumping a full shot into his artery. He tells me the drug that led him down this path—that helped him accelerate from a teenager smoking pot in his parent’s basement to a young man shooting heroin in a filthy apartment—was a medication called OxyContin.
