Opioids III: The Sacklers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended in threads about Purdue and Sackler immunity as a good primer on the issue.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

LastWeekTonight

Topic

sackler family opioid crisis

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• I recently watched these 3 episodes of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Highly recommended. Opioids III: The Sacklers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ( [VIDEO] ) Opioids II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ( [LINK] ) Opioids: Last Week Tonight with John …

• For anyone that's just getting up to speed on this, John Oliver had a really good video specifically about this issue: [VIDEO]

• Good. For those that haven't watched them yet, there are 3 John Oliver segments on the subject that will back up the "Good." statement: Opioids [LINK] Opioids II [LINK] Opioids III (this one focuses 100% on the Sacklers) [VIDEO]