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Tell me about that day.
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That was probably the most difficult day
of my life.
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Today, the State Board
of Medical Examiners
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summarily suspended
Dr. Jacqueline Cleggett.
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Cleggett's lawyer tells us
he'll be asking for
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a full hearing tomorrow.
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[Cleggett] I spent a very, very long time
to become a physician.
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Too many hardships I had to endure
to actually get to where I was
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to have it snatched away.
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My desire to become a physician
started when I was eight years old.
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I wanted to help people.
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Simple as that.
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Chronic pain is subjective.
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You must rely on
the patient's explanation,
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because often there are no physical signs
that you can objectively diagnose.
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In other words,
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your pain is what you say it is.
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In seeking to help patients,
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you try to provide
the best possible resource to them.
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OxyContin was very effective.
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So that's why that drug was selected.
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[interviewer] Do you remember
any of your patients dying?
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Do you have specific patients in mind?
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[mechanical clicking and whirring]
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[mellow instrumentals]
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[mellow instrumentals fade]
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[slide clicks]
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[ambient instrumentals]
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[George] After Dr. Cleggett's license
was suspended...
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you have to give the physician
a due process hearing
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within 90 days
of the time that you summarily suspend.
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So the clock is ticking.
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In the complaint,
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there are well over
100 factual allegations.
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Fifty, sixty pages.
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Family members contacted Dr. Cleggett
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and tried to get her to agree
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to quit treating their son
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or daughter or husband
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because they were addicted and impaired,
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and they were misusing their medications,
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and they got no, um, response
from Dr. Cleggett.
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Or if they got a response,
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it was negative.
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We had affidavits from coroners,
uh, DEA people,
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you know, narcotics agents.
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They see young people
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with foam coming out of their mouths.
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[distant sirens whooping]
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OxyContin bottles
with Dr. Cleggett's name on it
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strewn on the floor.
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I had all of that ready to go
and I was ready to move.
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[cars rushing past]
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[Dan] I got a phone call
from the medical board,
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asking me if I might give a deposition
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against Dr. Cleggett,
who was trying to get her license back.
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The deposition was the first time
I sat down across from Dr. Cleggett.
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Her attorney was trying to belittle me.
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He painted this picture
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that I wasn't able to catch
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my son's addiction before he died.
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And that I would have done anything
to put her out of business
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to make up for my son's death.
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Her attorney says...
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"Mr. Schneider, what length
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would you have
gone to to put her out of business?
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What would you have spent...
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to put her out of business?"
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And I said...
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"What's a life worth?"
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[George] We had a hearing set.
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And a few days before the hearing,
we get word
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Dr. Cleggett has been admitted
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to DePaul-Tulane Behavioral Center
for opiate abuse...
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and cannot attend the hearing.
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[Patricia] DEA had information
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from some patients
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who said that Dr. Cleggett not only
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gave out prescription drugs,
she used prescriptions.
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[Iris] On one occasion,
while we were conducting observation,
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I saw Dr. Cleggett taking pills herself
when arriving at the clinic.
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We got a search warrant
to search her home.
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In plain view, there were numerous bottles
of prescription medication,
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some with pills in 'em, some empty.
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just laying around in Dr. Cleggett's home.
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[interviewer]
So you were never self-medicating?
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[Cleggett] Mm-mm.
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Mm-mm.
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[interviewer]
You didn't suffer from addiction?
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No.
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I was never addicted.
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[George] After Dr. Cleggett was admitted
into DePaul
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and her abuse was well-documented...
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Dr. Cleggett and her attorney
were agreeable...
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to the total termination
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of her medical license
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without having to admit any wrongdoing.
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[Iris] Dr. Cleggett's license was revoked
in 2003.
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However, it was years later
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before the US Attorney indicted her.
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[Cleggett] When you see...
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your name...
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versus the United States of America...
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if that doesn't strike fear
into your heart, I don't know what will.
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"So the entire country's against me?"
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[Patricia]
She was one of the first doctors
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the US Attorney's office prosecuted.
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[Dan] I was given a subpoena.
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And they asked me
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to bring everything I had done,
through either the medical board
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or the FBI or the DEA.
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And I was basically told when I got there
that I was probably the primary witness.
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And shortly after that,
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I found out that there were other cases
against Dr. Cleggett.
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[Chris] I was an operative
of Purdue Pharma...
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but I was subpoenaed individually.
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I don't know if it was a group of patients
that got together and they were suing her
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and somehow or another
my name got tangled up in this,
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or if it was kind of a blanket action
to get Purdue reps,
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to get them to answer questions
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about the territory in general.
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But it wasn't, "Purdue Pharma and Chris."
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So I had to go show up.
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The questions revolved around,
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"What do you know about Dr. Cleggett?
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What do you know about the promotion
of OxyContin in this territory?"
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I answered the questions.
I answered honestly.
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And I remember being relieved
when I walked out.
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And I remember having my mind made up...
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when I walked out...
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that I got to get the fuck away
from this...
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because I'm not going any deeper
than where I am right now.
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[Iris] Right before the indictment...
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I heard that Dr. Cleggett
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was in a car accident.
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[tires skidding]
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[crashing and shattering]
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[Cleggett] I was asleep
on the passenger side.
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The driver took out a section of trees,
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going at approximately 80 miles an hour.
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They said I nearly died in that crash.
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They were correct.
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I had a hangman's fracture,
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which is what happens
when you hang from a noose
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and break your neck.
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I suffered the exact same injury
in the car accident.
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- [machine beeps faintly]
- I had two brain hemorrhages...
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five skull fractures.
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The reason why I sound different
is because I was intubated
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for six weeks.
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My voice is now higher and squeakier.
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Following the accident...
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I was prescribed OxyContin.
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And, no,
I didn't have any problems with it.
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Actually...
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it helped alleviate a lot of pain.
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[Patricia] At the time,
she was partially paralyzed,
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but Dr. Cleggett eventually
was brought to trial
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for the operation of her pain clinic.
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[George] The criminal prosecution
placed Dr. Cleggett at risk
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for somewhere around 20 years
of incarceration
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and fines of around a million dollars.
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[Iris] She was originally charged
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with 37 counts of conspiracy
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to distribute controlled
substances for no medical purpose.
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[Patricia] Because she was in
this terrible automobile accident,
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her attorney worked out a plea agreement
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with the US Attorney's office.
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[Iris] She was charged
with only one count of conspiracy
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to prescribe a controlled substance
without a legitimate medical purpose.
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Which, in fact,
means she was not practicing medicine,
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period.
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[Cleggett] I pleaded guilty to one count
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even though I knew...
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that I had not done
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what they stated I had done.
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Due to her impairment
from the car accident,
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she did not do any prison time
and was on probation for three years.
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She didn't go to jail.
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But part of her plea agreement
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was to agree never to operate
a pain clinic ever again.
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[Cleggett] Sometimes,
I actually have dreams
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about practicing medicine.
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And...
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for a few moments, when I wake up...
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it seems that dream is actually real.
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But that's a dream about the past.
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A dream that I can never get back.
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Her punishment did not fit the crime.
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And I'll leave it at that.
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[Dan] After Dr. Cleggett got shut down...
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I felt like I had accomplished my mission.
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And I thought
that might be the end of this.
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That wasn't the end.
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That was the beginning.
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[Dan] It was like a cancer.
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It metastasized.
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[M.] Pills were just readily available.
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Pill mills were, you know,
kind of popping up all over the place.
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[Dan] It seemed like they were replicating
Dr. Cleggett's business model, okay?
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So many addicts had been created
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and people knew there was real money
to be made off every one of them.
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[reporter 1] How easy is it
to open and run a clinic?
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According to the DEA, just about anyone
who's willing to fill out the paperwork
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and pay the taxes can do it.
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[man] You go to the Sheriff's Office
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and make an application
for an occupational license
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and you agree to pay sales tax
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and you're issued a license
and you can open a clinic.
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[Billy] I was really disappointed in
the doctors.
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They had sworn to do no harm.
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They had been trained all their lives
to help people
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and here they were killing people.
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[reporter 2] Every week,
the DEA sees one or two applications
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from people trying to open up
new pain clinics in the New Orleans area.
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[man] We now estimate that there's 60
and the number is growing.
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But this problem
has reached crisis proportions.
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[faint ticking]
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[Dan] More than 60 pain clinics
had popped up.
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And fatal overdoses doubled
in St. Bernard.
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A lot of people
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felt it was a hopeless situation.
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But I saw the drug problem
as a dark tunnel that we were in.
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And I had a dream that maybe, just maybe,
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there could be light
at the end of the tunnel
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or somehow we could create some light
at the end of the tunnel.
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[wind rushing]
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In St. Bernard Parish,
there's a stretch of trees
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that forms a tunnel.
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We call it the tunnel of oaks.
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Danny and I would be in the Mustang
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and we would ride through
that beautiful tunnel.
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It was always part of a route
that we would take,
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what we called "down the road."
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I saw it as a symbol of hope.
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So I started calling this mission
that I was on, "The Tunnel of Hope."
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[Annie] We never had all the answers
we wanted,
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why Danny got killed that night.
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But Danny was still on a mission
to help other parents
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with kids that have drug problems.
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'Cause we didn't want that to happen
to their families.
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[Dan]I had a chance
to save a bunch of kids.
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I wanted to do something for my community.
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[water rushing]
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[Dan] Apparently, most people
are like I was in the past.
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And they just let everything slide.
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Everything just kind of goes by 'em.
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I have a little saying.
Some people watch things happen.
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Some people make things happen.
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And some people say, "What happened?"
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And I'm in a "make happen" stage.
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I'm speaking out.
I plan to speak at schools.
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We gotta try to make a difference
against incredible odds again.
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And Danny's right by our side.
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[Dan] I appreciate
the opportunity to speak to you all.
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I'm here representing my family,
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including my son,
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to deliver this message
and see if we can't make a difference.
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[Dan] I started talking to kids
on a regular basis.
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And Robbie,
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many times,
would show up in a supportive fashion
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and be part of the audience.
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[Robbie] Something had to change.
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You had young teenagers
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just looking to get high.
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Now they're starting with something
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that could kill 'em on the first dose.
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[Dan] Danny had talked to me
about marijuana,
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saying it was safe and saying,
"But, Dad, I wouldn't go any further."
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[stammers] And every person...
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And every person that goes further,
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do you think that any of them
think it's going to lead to death
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or them being in jail?
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Not one of 'em.
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[Annie] After he talked at some of
the schools...
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he almost became a mentor
to some of the kids,
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'cause they would call him up
on the phone.
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I remember, one night, we were sleeping,
it was like two o'clock in the morning.
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The phone rang and it was this kid
that needed to talk to Danny.
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[Dan] What I want to point out
to y'all in the audience is this:
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If I asked you
to look at the ten people around you...
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which of your friends do you think
would be the one that would screw up?
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You might form an opinion on that,
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but it'd be curious,
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because if you ask
the person you picked...
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they might pick you.
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It can happen to any one of you.
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We've got to reverse the trend.
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[Dan] 2004, 2005,
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I was developing a lot of momentum.
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People started to know kind of who I was
and what was going on.
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[dramatic instrumentals]
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I was writing articlesin the newspaper.
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[paper rustling]
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I wrote lettersto a number of politicians
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trying to motivate somebody
to try to reduce this problem.
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Could we get
the pharmaceutical manufacturers
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at least to maybe pay
for some of this carnage?
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We worked on pain clinic law.
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We worked on pain clinic moratoriums.
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I not only wanted to change St. Bernard,
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I wanted to change the country.
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That was my dream.
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I was feeling good
about where I was going with my mission,
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and so I scheduled a town hall meeting.
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We were getting very, very close, uh,
to that meeting.
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We had a date scheduled,
I'd already printed materials on it.
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And then we heard about a hurricane
that was out in the Gulf.
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[droning instrumentals]
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[reporter 1] There's been a subtle change
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in the track of this, which may mean...
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[reporter 2] Hurricane Katrina
continues to move west,
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taking aim at southeast Louisiana.
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[Jack] My cell phone rings,
"Is this Sheriff Stephens?"
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I say, "Yes."
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He says,
"I'm with the National Hurricane Center.
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I'm sorry to have to make this call."
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He said, "But you're gonna have
a 30-foot wall of water
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hit your parish tomorrow.
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You're gonna flood levy to levy
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and there's not going to be
a structure spared.
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And you're gonna have
significant loss of life.
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God bless you and good luck,"
and they hung the phone up.
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[reporter 3] If persons haven't evacuated
by now...
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they need to leave immediately.
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[reporter 4] It is a 100% probability.
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For God's sake,
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if you're listening
to this broadcast right now,
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get out.
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[Dan] The news people had kind of warned
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some major damage might happen.
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- [wind whipping]
- But we just could not envision
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the entire St. Bernard...
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[water rushes]
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[reporter 5] The levy breach has occurred
along the industrial canal.
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[reporter 6] There's gotta be a break
in the levy somewhere
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'cause the water's still coming up.
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- [man 1] Oh, no!
- [water splashes]
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Here it comes, up the front door.
It broke the front door.
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[woman 1] Oh, God. I can't believe this.
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[wind and water roaring]
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[man 2] There were four houses over there.
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Now they're gone. All four of them.
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Oh, Jesus Christ!
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Moving right down the Bayou.
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[woman 2] Oh, God, please let it stop.
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[helicopter propeller thumping]
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[somber instrumentals]
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[Jack] Look at that car. You see?
It was halfway on the roof.
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- [Dan] Was it? Okay.
- Yeah. Come back, you might see it.
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[Dan] Entering St. Bernard Parish
for the first time.
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[Kristi]
Hopefully entering St. Bernard Parish.
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[Dan] Unbelievable.
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Never realized how much I cared
for this community until this happened.
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Everything has been destroyed.
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Totally destroyed.
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[Jack] It was the largest natural disaster
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in the country's history at that point.
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[Annie] Here's our house.
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There's Kristi, with her boots, going in.
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[water sloshes]
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[Kristi] Holy crap.
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I'm going down.
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[Dan] Good Lord. Look at that!
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Came right through the ceiling.
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- [Annie] What?
- [Dan] Yeah.
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[Annie] Kristi's trying to go upstairs.
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[crackling]
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[Annie] Okay, wait a minute.
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[all] Merry Christmas!
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[Dan] It's Danny.
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He's up.
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[Kristi] That was the only house
I ever lived in my entire life.
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Ta-da!
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All the memories with my brother
were there and...
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[footsteps crunch on rubble]
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[plastic wheels rattle]
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[indistinct chatter]
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[group]
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
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[Dan] All of St. Bernard
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had pain and anguish, just like us.
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And, unfortunately, a lot of people
turned to OxyContin to cope.
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[cars rumbling]
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[Jack] When we were starting
to rebuild this place,
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the melancholy and the grief
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and the depression after Katrina
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was unbelievable.
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They had more people
turn to drugs and alcohol
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after that storm
than you could ever imagine.
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People you would never assume
would take pills to survive...
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were doing it.
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[Chris] St. Bernard is blue collar.
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A lot of 'em got hurt doing manual labor.
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[machinery beeps]
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So, the demand was there.
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There were doctors
that were willing to supply that demand.
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It's a perfect storm.
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- [dramatic instrumentals]
- [statistics ticking]
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[Dan] After Katrina, it was amazing
that the hundred-year oak trees survived.
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The Tunnel of Hope survived.
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I knew my mission had to go on.
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[Annie] When Katrina came,
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almost all of Danny's documents
and everything was upstairs
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in the attic.
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Everything in the attic got saved.
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And it was amazing,
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'cause everything else
pretty much was destroyed.
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[Dan] And so I felt God wanted me
to do something beyond Cleggett.
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- [rustles papers]
- OxyContin was still out there.
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The only way
we could make a serious dent in this
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was to go at the source.
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Something had to be done
about Purdue Pharma.
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[Dr. Lembke] In 2007,
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Purdue Pharma was convicted
of misrepresenting the abuse liability,
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or the addictive potential of OxyContin.
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[Brownlee] Purdue's marketing of OxyContin
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was deceptive and criminal.
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It is important to note
that most of the people never claimed
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that Purdue was solely responsible
for their loved one's death.
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They just wanted Purdue
to tell the truth about the drug.
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[Chris] The patients were told,
"This has lower addictive qualities."
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Compared to fucking what?
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You know, I mean,
that's a serious question.
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Compared to what?
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[Dan] Their executives
were slapped on the wrist, okay?
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The company had to pay
600 million dollars in fines,
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but these guys never really
accepted responsibility
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for the opiate epidemic
that they helped create.
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Even after the Purdue executives
plead guilty in 2007,
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they didn't stop promoting OxyContin.
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They promoted it harder than ever.
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[dramatic instrumentals continue]
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[Chris] Somebody...
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should have said, "Whoa."
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00:26:35,969 --> 00:26:39,681
Somebody should have
pumped the fucking brakes and said...
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"Whoa,
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we got problems."
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You know? "We got problems, Houston.
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We're leaking oil."
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[Dan] I finally came to the conclusion
that Purdue Pharma
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was not gonna stop what they were doing.
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But maybe we could stop
the prescription problem,
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which was producing addicts.
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What can we do...
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to curb pill-mill doctors?
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[radio DJ] This hour,
we're talking about...
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Are these pain control clinics
out of control?
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These are prescriptions
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that are filled at pharmacies.
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[Dan] Exactly.
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And we're not in a position to know
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whether or not these people
are seeing more than one doctor.
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[DJ] What do they call it?
Drug shopping?
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[Dan] Drug shopping, doctor shopping.
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- [DJ] Doctor shopping. Yeah.
- Correct.
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[Dan] I was advocating
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for a prescription monitoring program.
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I didn't invent this thing,
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but I saw it
in some other states
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and on the news.
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And I started saying,
"God, this is a great idea."
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I wrote a letter to the pharmacy board.
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And it was just weeks later,
they came back and said,
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"We have listened to your proposition,
we agree with you
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and we're gonna do it."
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[Iris]
With the prescription monitoring program,
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we didn't have to go to pharmacies.
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We could see it
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on one computer-generated print-out.
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The PMP made it a lot easier...
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to prosecute doctors.
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[reporter 1] Two pain management clinics
are the targets of raids
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by the US Drug Enforcement Agency.
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[reporter 2]
Dr. Richard Paolino was charged
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with more than 1,000 counts of fraud
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associated with OxyContin prescriptions.
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[Dan] We finally started
curtailing doctors a little bit
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to reduce the OxyContin that they wrote.
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[reporter 3] The 61-year-old physician
was basically a drug dealer
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with a medical license.
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[M.] OxyContin began getting restricted.
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Pharmacies were refusing
to fill certain prescriptions.
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It was just getting harder
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for people that were addicted
to get those opioids prescribed.
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So people moved to heroin.
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[Chris] People get addicted
and then the supply goes away.
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So what happens when the supply goes away?
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People find a new supply,
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because they're addicted
and they don't have any other options.
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[Jack] The drug cartels saw an opportunity
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to fill an enormous vacuum
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with the interruption of the pill mills.
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Then, all of a sudden,
we've got as bad a drug problem
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as we've ever had.
507
00:29:23,970 --> 00:29:26,410
[Diane Sawyer] We want to tell you
about a skyrocketing threat
508
00:29:26,473 --> 00:29:29,100
in suburban communities
across the country tonight.
509
00:29:29,184 --> 00:29:32,729
[reporter 4] The explosion of heroin
isn't by accident.
510
00:29:33,855 --> 00:29:35,899
The prescription monitoring program
511
00:29:36,107 --> 00:29:39,736
has turned opiate addicts
who can't get their fix in a pill form
512
00:29:39,819 --> 00:29:40,819
to heroin.
513
00:29:42,739 --> 00:29:44,657
[reporter 5]
Cheaper than prescription pills,
514
00:29:44,741 --> 00:29:46,576
heroin gives users the same fix,
515
00:29:46,659 --> 00:29:49,078
but at a significantly lower cost.
516
00:29:50,580 --> 00:29:55,084
[Dr. Lembke] Prescription opioids
became the gateway to heroin addiction.
517
00:29:57,212 --> 00:29:59,297
Seventy-five percentof heroin users
518
00:29:59,380 --> 00:30:03,134
said the first opioid they ever used
was a prescription opioid.
519
00:30:04,636 --> 00:30:07,305
[M.] When you're getting something legal
from a doctor
520
00:30:07,388 --> 00:30:09,098
with a legitimate prescription...
521
00:30:09,849 --> 00:30:10,725
it's not like,
522
00:30:10,809 --> 00:30:12,602
you know, going into the city
523
00:30:12,685 --> 00:30:15,563
and buying heroin on the street,
which is illegal.
524
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:17,857
[stammers] It's dirtierto people.
525
00:30:18,691 --> 00:30:19,943
[indistinct chatter]
526
00:30:20,485 --> 00:30:22,612
But an addict is an addict,
527
00:30:22,695 --> 00:30:25,406
and if you put a heroin addict
and an OxyContin addict
528
00:30:25,490 --> 00:30:27,534
in a room for a few days, using,
529
00:30:27,617 --> 00:30:29,536
you wouldn't be able to tell them apart,
530
00:30:29,619 --> 00:30:31,538
because it does the same exact thing.
531
00:30:32,121 --> 00:30:33,122
[gurney rattles]
532
00:30:33,206 --> 00:30:35,291
[indistinct radio chatter]
533
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,842
[Dan] Just when I thought
I was getting everything maybe resolved...
534
00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:46,511
I saw so many unintended consequences.
535
00:30:47,136 --> 00:30:48,471
Now they're going to heroin!
536
00:30:48,596 --> 00:30:49,681
It was almost like...
537
00:30:50,181 --> 00:30:51,558
"Did I do the right thing?"
538
00:30:52,392 --> 00:30:53,768
[sirens whooping]
539
00:30:54,352 --> 00:30:57,313
Prescription drugs,
at least they know what they're getting.
540
00:30:57,397 --> 00:30:58,773
[indistinct dispatch chatter]
541
00:30:59,023 --> 00:31:01,442
[Jack] There was unfamiliarity
with the drug
542
00:31:01,526 --> 00:31:03,862
and our overdose episodes
just went through the roof.
543
00:31:05,196 --> 00:31:06,556
[officer 1] Get him on the ground.
544
00:31:06,614 --> 00:31:07,824
[Jack] It was alarming.
545
00:31:07,907 --> 00:31:09,325
It was... It was a shock.
546
00:31:09,409 --> 00:31:10,952
[officer 2] Come on, buddy. Come on.
547
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,079
[Jack] We're losing more people
every year.
548
00:31:13,788 --> 00:31:14,789
[officer 3] Jay, wake up.
549
00:31:15,331 --> 00:31:16,666
[Iris] Drugs come in seasons.
550
00:31:17,792 --> 00:31:20,378
First, it was OxyContin season.
551
00:31:21,212 --> 00:31:22,797
Heroin season.
552
00:31:22,881 --> 00:31:25,800
And now we have fentanyl season.
553
00:31:27,927 --> 00:31:32,849
[Dr. Lembke] Fentanyl is 50 to 100 times
more potent than heroin or morphine
554
00:31:32,932 --> 00:31:34,601
and so extremely lethal.
555
00:31:35,643 --> 00:31:37,163
People think they're getting one thing
556
00:31:37,228 --> 00:31:40,857
and they're actually getting a mixture
of that drug and fentanyl.
557
00:31:42,650 --> 00:31:46,863
Which means that the heroin on the street
is much more potent than it had been.
558
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,075
[Walter] Here in St. Bernard Parish,
559
00:31:51,159 --> 00:31:55,580
every one of us knows someone
who's lost a child or a relative
560
00:31:55,663 --> 00:31:58,583
to addiction of prescription opioids
and heroin.
561
00:31:59,667 --> 00:32:02,420
We have innocent Americans
who have become addicted
562
00:32:02,503 --> 00:32:05,089
to a drug that was designed
to relieve them of pain.
563
00:32:05,882 --> 00:32:08,301
This was so devastating
in St. Bernard Parish.
564
00:32:08,384 --> 00:32:11,137
It makes me think
of another addictive drug.
565
00:32:11,888 --> 00:32:13,097
Tobacco.
566
00:32:14,849 --> 00:32:17,685
During the national litigation
against the cigarette industry,
567
00:32:17,769 --> 00:32:19,938
I was representing St. Bernard Parish,
568
00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:21,898
to investigate and eventually prosecute
569
00:32:21,981 --> 00:32:25,693
the tobacco industry
for addicting smokers and causing death.
570
00:32:27,195 --> 00:32:31,157
The tobacco industry had denied
the addictive properties of cigarettes
571
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,619
and hired doctors to teach the public
572
00:32:34,702 --> 00:32:36,704
that cigarette smoking
was really a choice.
573
00:32:37,205 --> 00:32:39,749
That it was a matter of free will
and it was not addictive.
574
00:32:39,832 --> 00:32:42,835
Let me ask you first,
and I'd like to just go down the row,
575
00:32:42,919 --> 00:32:47,423
uh, whether each of you believes
that nicotine is not addictive?
576
00:32:47,507 --> 00:32:50,927
When the chief executive officers
of the major tobacco companies
577
00:32:51,010 --> 00:32:52,261
stood and raised their hands...
578
00:32:52,345 --> 00:32:54,514
I believe nicotine is not addictive, yes.
579
00:32:55,515 --> 00:32:57,100
I believe nicotine is not addictive.
580
00:32:58,893 --> 00:33:00,979
I believe that nicotine is not addictive.
581
00:33:02,522 --> 00:33:04,899
I believe that nicotine is not addictive.
582
00:33:05,733 --> 00:33:08,236
When we discovered in litigation later,
583
00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:12,115
every one of them had tremendous amounts
of information in-house
584
00:33:12,615 --> 00:33:14,909
that proved that the drug was addictive
585
00:33:14,993 --> 00:33:18,538
and that many of them were engineering
their product to make it more addictive.
586
00:33:18,997 --> 00:33:20,581
[ambient instrumentals]
587
00:33:21,165 --> 00:33:23,209
[Dr. Lembke] The same thing happened
in medicine.
588
00:33:24,043 --> 00:33:27,213
That's essentially what Purdue did
with OxyContin.
589
00:33:28,047 --> 00:33:30,383
OxyContin, from a molecular level,
590
00:33:30,550 --> 00:33:33,469
is pretty much identical to heroin
591
00:33:33,553 --> 00:33:35,680
or any other opioid
you can get on the street.
592
00:33:35,763 --> 00:33:38,641
You know, Purdue Pharma, they knew that.
593
00:33:39,183 --> 00:33:40,852
And they just didn't care.
594
00:33:42,061 --> 00:33:44,355
None of the people working for Purdue,
595
00:33:44,439 --> 00:33:48,234
from the very top people,
596
00:33:48,317 --> 00:33:49,736
all the way down to...
597
00:33:50,445 --> 00:33:53,239
little territory reps like myself.
598
00:33:53,740 --> 00:33:55,116
Nobody was dumb.
599
00:33:56,492 --> 00:33:57,577
I'm not dumb.
600
00:33:58,369 --> 00:34:00,621
Uh, the people above me weren't dumb.
601
00:34:01,414 --> 00:34:04,208
The people above them weren't dumb.
602
00:34:04,709 --> 00:34:09,005
All the way into Connecticut,
nobody's dumb.
603
00:34:10,423 --> 00:34:11,799
But we all acted dumb.
604
00:34:15,636 --> 00:34:18,806
[Dr. Lembke] And opioid addiction
spread all across the country.
605
00:34:21,434 --> 00:34:24,687
[Dan] Purdue Pharma set the stage
for this to happen.
606
00:34:25,855 --> 00:34:27,899
They made opioids acceptable
607
00:34:28,357 --> 00:34:30,026
to a whole bunch more people.
608
00:34:34,113 --> 00:34:36,115
[Jack] The wake of destruction
609
00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:40,078
that this one company leaves behind them
is extraordinary.
610
00:34:40,161 --> 00:34:42,001
I don't know
how they can live with themselves.
611
00:34:42,580 --> 00:34:43,748
This is corporate crime.
612
00:34:43,831 --> 00:34:46,125
This is big business America.
613
00:34:48,961 --> 00:34:51,756
[Dr. Lembke] Today, Purdue Pharma
is facing a reckoning.
614
00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:56,469
[Walter] Cases were beginning to be filed
all over the country.
615
00:34:56,969 --> 00:34:59,555
It'll be a titanic confrontation.
616
00:35:00,306 --> 00:35:03,017
DeKalb County is joining
a growing number of local governments
617
00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:04,519
suing opioid manufacturers.
618
00:35:04,602 --> 00:35:07,230
[reporter 2] Florida, heading to court
today to take on
619
00:35:07,313 --> 00:35:08,773
opioid drug makers and distributors.
620
00:35:08,856 --> 00:35:11,025
[representative 1] It is a new day
in Oklahoma
621
00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:14,237
in our battle against the opioid epidemic.
622
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,364
[representative 2] In Michigan,
over 1,600 people
623
00:35:16,447 --> 00:35:18,866
died of opioid overdoses last year.
624
00:35:18,950 --> 00:35:21,619
One thousand three hundred
and seventy-five Texans died.
625
00:35:21,994 --> 00:35:24,497
Opioid addiction is a public health menace
626
00:35:24,580 --> 00:35:25,665
to South Carolina.
627
00:35:25,748 --> 00:35:27,625
The gross misconduct enabled
628
00:35:27,708 --> 00:35:29,043
countless New Yorkers
629
00:35:29,127 --> 00:35:33,256
to obtain prescriptions
that were not medically necessary.
630
00:35:33,965 --> 00:35:35,299
Their strategy was simple.
631
00:35:36,467 --> 00:35:39,804
The more drugs they sold,
the more money they made.
632
00:35:40,638 --> 00:35:44,267
[reporter 3] Nearly 2,000 lawsuits
have been filed against Purdue Pharma.
633
00:35:45,768 --> 00:35:47,770
[Walter]
I'm one of the senior lawyers involved
634
00:35:47,854 --> 00:35:51,566
in representing most of the local
governments in south Louisiana,
635
00:35:51,649 --> 00:35:52,984
including St. Bernard,
636
00:35:53,067 --> 00:35:54,861
against the opioid industry.
637
00:35:56,195 --> 00:35:58,656
[Dan] After this tremendous journey
that I've been on...
638
00:35:59,157 --> 00:36:01,159
I've become aware
639
00:36:01,242 --> 00:36:03,911
that Walter Leger,
my good high school buddy, okay,
640
00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:08,541
is... is the attorney
that's representing St. Bernard Parish.
641
00:36:08,916 --> 00:36:10,918
And it relieved my burden.
642
00:36:11,002 --> 00:36:14,380
I finally had somebody
that could make something happen.
643
00:36:15,798 --> 00:36:18,259
Walter was a guy
that could make these guys pay.
644
00:36:20,178 --> 00:36:23,055
But how do you deal with people
that have more money
645
00:36:23,139 --> 00:36:26,559
than the United States Department
of Justice has to fight this issue?
646
00:36:31,689 --> 00:36:33,941
[Dr. Lembke] The Sackler family,
which is the family
647
00:36:34,025 --> 00:36:36,068
behind Purdue Pharmaceuticals,
648
00:36:36,652 --> 00:36:38,321
is worth $13 billion dollars,
649
00:36:38,404 --> 00:36:41,574
and they essentially made that money
on the backs of OxyContin.
650
00:36:43,034 --> 00:36:47,121
And they have been able to evade
any kind of personal responsibility
651
00:36:47,205 --> 00:36:49,498
for the opioid epidemic until now.
652
00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:52,251
For the first time, the Sacklers
653
00:36:52,335 --> 00:36:54,712
have been named in multiple lawsuits.
654
00:36:55,296 --> 00:36:57,016
Today,
the Attorney General of Massachusetts
655
00:36:57,048 --> 00:37:00,343
pushed for the release of more documents
from Purdue Pharma.
656
00:37:00,927 --> 00:37:02,845
[reporter 4] Newly-obtained emails
and memos
657
00:37:02,929 --> 00:37:04,555
from then-president Richard Sackler,
658
00:37:04,639 --> 00:37:06,307
writing in a confidential email,
659
00:37:06,891 --> 00:37:09,894
"We have to hammer on the abusers
in every way possible."
660
00:37:11,646 --> 00:37:13,606
[Dr. Lembke]
What these lawsuits have meant
661
00:37:13,689 --> 00:37:16,525
is that we've had access
to these private emails,
662
00:37:16,609 --> 00:37:18,527
showing that the Sackler family
663
00:37:18,611 --> 00:37:21,864
was totally and completely in it
for the money.
664
00:37:24,992 --> 00:37:28,287
It's not about helping people,
whatever they might say to the contrary.
665
00:37:29,038 --> 00:37:31,398
[reporter 5] A new report
based on secret parts of a lawsuit
666
00:37:31,457 --> 00:37:33,125
filed by the State of Massachusetts
667
00:37:33,209 --> 00:37:34,377
claims the drug company
668
00:37:34,460 --> 00:37:37,046
considered expanding
into addiction treatment.
669
00:37:41,342 --> 00:37:43,261
[Dr. Lembke] Even more egregiously,
670
00:37:43,344 --> 00:37:46,597
the Sacklers decided to get into
the addiction treatment business.
671
00:37:47,431 --> 00:37:49,058
When they were promoting OxyContin,
672
00:37:49,141 --> 00:37:51,686
they would repeatedly say
that addiction and pain
673
00:37:51,769 --> 00:37:53,688
have nothing to do with each other.
674
00:37:53,896 --> 00:37:56,124
Then when they got into the addiction
treatment business,
675
00:37:56,148 --> 00:38:00,152
they said, "Addiction and pain
are inextricably intertwined."
676
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:06,450
[Chris] Purdue trying to get into
the treatment business?
677
00:38:07,743 --> 00:38:08,828
Didn't make sense.
678
00:38:09,412 --> 00:38:10,621
Right? There again...
679
00:38:11,122 --> 00:38:12,122
ding!
680
00:38:13,499 --> 00:38:14,583
Red flag.
681
00:38:19,422 --> 00:38:20,662
[council] Sitting here today...
682
00:38:21,215 --> 00:38:23,426
after all you've come to learn
as a witness...
683
00:38:23,926 --> 00:38:27,763
do you believe Purdue's conduct
in marketing and promoting OxyContin
684
00:38:27,847 --> 00:38:31,851
caused any of the prescription drug
addiction problems...
685
00:38:32,476 --> 00:38:34,228
now plaguing the commonwealth?
686
00:38:34,312 --> 00:38:35,438
I don't believe so.
687
00:38:36,230 --> 00:38:37,390
[council] Sitting here today,
688
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,191
after all you've come to learn
as a witness,
689
00:38:39,275 --> 00:38:40,735
do you believe that Purdue's conduct
690
00:38:40,818 --> 00:38:44,530
has led to an excessive
or unnecessary amount of opioids
691
00:38:44,613 --> 00:38:46,741
being located throughout the commonwealth?
692
00:38:49,535 --> 00:38:50,619
I don't believe so.
693
00:38:54,165 --> 00:38:56,184
[council] Do you believe
that any of Purdue's conduct
694
00:38:56,208 --> 00:39:00,588
has led to an increase
in people being addicted?
695
00:39:03,674 --> 00:39:04,674
No.
696
00:39:14,602 --> 00:39:15,602
[pills rattling]
697
00:39:28,657 --> 00:39:30,576
[somber instrumentals]
698
00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:34,789
- [indistinct chatter and cheering]
- [flame roars]
699
00:39:38,250 --> 00:39:40,252
[kids scream excitedly]
700
00:39:43,381 --> 00:39:45,383
[indistinct intercom chatter]
701
00:39:47,551 --> 00:39:49,220
[teens scream joyfully]
702
00:39:57,228 --> 00:39:58,354
[cages rattling]
703
00:40:13,619 --> 00:40:15,037
[Robbie] I drive a cab now.
704
00:40:16,831 --> 00:40:18,082
I see people, uh...
705
00:40:18,582 --> 00:40:20,835
You know, I know I'm dropping 'em off
in the 9th Ward.
706
00:40:20,918 --> 00:40:23,295
I know what's going on.
I know what's happening.
707
00:40:24,463 --> 00:40:27,508
If you're coming here,
you're only coming here for one reason.
708
00:40:28,884 --> 00:40:31,345
And one after the other,
like a McDonald's drive-thru,
709
00:40:31,429 --> 00:40:33,097
they'll... they'll score their dope.
710
00:40:35,474 --> 00:40:37,594
You know, that's one of the reasons
why I carry Narcan
711
00:40:37,643 --> 00:40:39,103
in my glove box.
712
00:40:40,813 --> 00:40:42,373
You never know who you're gonna pick up
713
00:40:42,398 --> 00:40:43,691
or when you're gonna need it.
714
00:40:48,237 --> 00:40:51,740
- Crack destroyed New Orleans in the '80s.
- [pipe bubbling]
715
00:40:52,283 --> 00:40:54,577
- But with the opioid epidemic...
- [pills rattling]
716
00:40:55,244 --> 00:40:57,580
I see total destruction.
717
00:40:58,831 --> 00:41:00,875
There's no end to the damage
718
00:41:00,958 --> 00:41:03,711
this opioid situation has caused.
719
00:41:07,506 --> 00:41:09,341
[M.] The addiction
just doesn't discriminate.
720
00:41:10,050 --> 00:41:12,845
It doesn't matter who you are,
how much money you have,
721
00:41:12,928 --> 00:41:14,472
what color your skin is.
722
00:41:14,805 --> 00:41:15,805
Addiction,
723
00:41:16,182 --> 00:41:17,975
[stammers] it just doesn't discriminate.
724
00:41:22,146 --> 00:41:24,315
[Chris] Is there some way in the future
725
00:41:24,398 --> 00:41:27,276
that we can stop people from having pain?
726
00:41:28,611 --> 00:41:30,654
I don't know what the answer is.
727
00:41:30,738 --> 00:41:32,364
But we're in a hell of a pickle.
728
00:41:33,616 --> 00:41:35,201
This is a hell of a mess.
729
00:41:41,916 --> 00:41:46,170
When I see young lives destroyed
by this disease,
730
00:41:46,253 --> 00:41:47,338
you know, I wonder...
731
00:41:49,632 --> 00:41:50,632
where do I fit?
732
00:41:53,135 --> 00:41:54,135
[seagulls caw]
733
00:41:54,220 --> 00:41:57,139
I do believe that everybody...
734
00:41:57,723 --> 00:41:59,850
not just me as a sales rep,
735
00:42:00,309 --> 00:42:01,519
not just Purdue...
736
00:42:02,436 --> 00:42:03,521
but doctors...
737
00:42:05,064 --> 00:42:06,064
the FDA...
738
00:42:07,441 --> 00:42:09,401
Congress, right?
739
00:42:11,654 --> 00:42:13,447
Everybody's got a bit of blood.
740
00:42:14,156 --> 00:42:15,741
We've all got skin in the game.
741
00:42:24,833 --> 00:42:28,379
[Walter] Danny was on the front line
in terms of the opioid epidemic.
742
00:42:31,131 --> 00:42:34,051
As we look back at what Dan went through,
743
00:42:34,134 --> 00:42:36,178
and what he was recognizing,
what he was saying,
744
00:42:36,262 --> 00:42:40,849
uh, contributes to our understanding
of the opioid crisis
745
00:42:40,933 --> 00:42:42,293
and hopefully how to deal with it.
746
00:42:42,351 --> 00:42:45,396
Uh, not just how to litigate it,
but how to solve it.
747
00:42:47,064 --> 00:42:49,144
There may not be
a more important case than this one.
748
00:42:49,441 --> 00:42:51,527
And your dedication
could be incredibly helpful.
749
00:42:52,528 --> 00:42:54,780
This is a copy of the lawsuit
that was filed here
750
00:42:54,863 --> 00:42:56,740
- in St. Bernard Parish.
- Right.
751
00:42:57,408 --> 00:43:01,161
It's like my crazy dream
of Tunnel of Hope...
752
00:43:01,662 --> 00:43:04,748
that I could maybe make a difference
or... or be a part of...
753
00:43:05,833 --> 00:43:07,418
something that can make a difference...
754
00:43:09,336 --> 00:43:11,088
may very well become a reality.
755
00:43:15,050 --> 00:43:16,427
[somber instrumentals fade]
756
00:43:28,105 --> 00:43:29,648
[tranquil instrumentals]
757
00:43:46,540 --> 00:43:47,916
What do you say, Danny boy?
758
00:43:48,542 --> 00:43:49,542
Decent job?
759
00:43:50,044 --> 00:43:51,128
[statue scrapes on table]
760
00:43:56,008 --> 00:43:58,469
[Jack] Dan's life will never be the same.
761
00:43:59,136 --> 00:44:02,556
No Christmas, no Thanksgiving,
no birthday,
762
00:44:03,098 --> 00:44:06,226
no anything will ever be the same.
763
00:44:06,310 --> 00:44:08,354
He will make the best of where he is,
764
00:44:08,937 --> 00:44:12,191
but he will always have his son
in his mind and his heart,
765
00:44:12,274 --> 00:44:13,567
and it will never go away.
766
00:44:13,651 --> 00:44:15,819
And that's the same for his entire family.
767
00:44:18,155 --> 00:44:19,698
[Annie sobbing]
768
00:44:19,990 --> 00:44:21,492
It's alright, baby. He's with us.
769
00:44:21,575 --> 00:44:24,203
He's with us
and we're gonna see him again, okay?
770
00:44:26,580 --> 00:44:28,457
[sighs deeply]
771
00:44:28,916 --> 00:44:30,250
[Jack] He is burdened
772
00:44:30,334 --> 00:44:32,044
with the type of grief and loss
773
00:44:32,127 --> 00:44:34,338
that we all hope
we never have to go through.
774
00:44:35,255 --> 00:44:37,966
But as a result of his attention
775
00:44:38,050 --> 00:44:40,052
being called to this enormous problem...
776
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:42,054
he saved a lot of lives
777
00:44:42,137 --> 00:44:44,264
and he can always
give his son credit for that.
778
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,562
[Dan] Right now, God, I have to pause.
779
00:44:51,605 --> 00:44:54,441
I've got things in the real world
I have to keep up with.
780
00:45:05,536 --> 00:45:06,620
[Annie sniffles]
781
00:45:07,746 --> 00:45:09,248
[Dan] This is a poem he wrote.
782
00:45:09,832 --> 00:45:11,875
"Reflections upon life seem like a dream.
783
00:45:14,044 --> 00:45:16,630
Although very real in the eyes
of the beholder...
784
00:45:17,631 --> 00:45:19,967
the time will come
when his life is done...
785
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,179
and he will live
in the distant dreams of everyone.
786
00:45:27,683 --> 00:45:29,476
Living the dream, living life...
787
00:45:30,519 --> 00:45:31,645
both the same.
788
00:45:32,813 --> 00:45:34,106
Both two different portraits
789
00:45:34,189 --> 00:45:35,524
in two different frames."
790
00:45:39,445 --> 00:45:42,281
- That was good.
- [sniffles, exhales]
791
00:45:44,700 --> 00:45:45,700
[Annie sniffles]
792
00:45:47,202 --> 00:45:49,079
Here, give me that. [laughs]
793
00:45:49,329 --> 00:45:50,247
I don't care.
794
00:45:50,330 --> 00:45:51,498
It's got mascara on it.
795
00:45:51,999 --> 00:45:53,083
[both chuckle]
796
00:45:58,255 --> 00:46:00,716
[Dan] Everything I did, I did for Danny.
797
00:46:24,156 --> 00:46:25,824
[tranquil instrumentals fade]
798
00:46:25,908 --> 00:46:27,284
[mechanical clicking]
799
00:46:30,704 --> 00:46:32,706
[somber instrumentals]