Pushing Painkillers | An Untapped Market | S4...

What if you could design a spy plane that could be flown remotely and hover in the sky for hours, providing reconnaissance for troops on the ground? In the early 1980s, the visionary inventor Abe Karem begins building drones out of his L.A. garage. Soon, the Pentagon and the CIA ...  Show more

Today social media is such a dominant part of our daily lives, it's hard to believe that only 20 years ago, it didn’t exist. Then a newly single tech entrepreneur named Jonathan Abrams wondered: What if you could use the internet to expand your network of real-life friends? His s ...  Show more

Richard Sackler charts a new course for his family’s company, Purdue Pharma. At the center of the plan: a painkiller that could be the next blockbuster drug. Want to listen to the remaining episodes of Opioids in America? Episodes 2-5 are available exclusively and ad-free on Wond ...  Show more

When you get hurt, you go to a doctor. But what do you do when your doctor’s prescriptions turn you into an opioid addict? Johnny Simon and Tim Cronin tried one of the first legal battles in America to hold physicians accountable for over-prescribing opioids. And they won. Johnny ...  Show more

In the 1980s and 90s, pharmaceutical companies began to market opioid painkillers aggressively, while actively downplaying their addictive potential. The number of prescriptions skyrocketed, and so did cases of addiction, beginning a crisis that continues today. What makes opioid ...  Show more