I really do think for the vast majority of cases, doctors didn't think they were doing anything wrong - they were doing what was being recommended at….

We must do something to let people in this country know that addiction is something that can be treated and this epidemic of prescribed opioids is so….

We did decide that every addict in this film, Warning: This Drug May Kill You, would be someone who started out with a prescription for an opioid fro….

It seemed that the problem of Americans overdosing and dying from drug addiction was being described as bad people, particularly kids, who were abusi….

It is unacceptable that the way we have treated people who have become addicted in the past is by throwing them in prison. It's appropriate that we'r….

I hope 'Warning: This Drug May Kill You' documentary helps to show the humanity of the people who are struggling with the brain disease of addiction ….

We can prevent more people from becoming more addicted - that's number one - with prescribing laws and making sure that people can't get too many of ….

I want to make it clear, though, that I am not trying to say these are bad drugs. Opioid medications in the short term for severe pain are very effec….

Life expectancy for middle-aged white women has dropped dramatically over the past decade. Researchers didn't understand what was going on and so the….

There seems is predominantly a white person's drug addiction epidemic, so that's why you see white people in our film, Warning: This Drug May Kill Yo….

In 1999, Purdue Pharma the maker of OxyContin went on a massive marketing campaign. Back then, prescription opioids were only used in extreme cases -….

We are having a public health response to this epidemic of prescription opioids. We are looking at treatment options, there are drugs being made avai….

Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way..