![]() And so, we spent a good time dealing with that. That’s kind of the match that lights the forest fire that engulfs the country. But, you know, strictly speaking, the opioid crisis starts with the story of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family. A lot of what The Post did was to focus on the second and third waves but also the role of these big pharmaceutical distributors. ![]() And we started just the two of us-and we’re going to talk about this more later-but this expanded into a massive investigation involving like 60 people on the newsroom led by Jeff Leen and David Fallis, and it became "The Opioid Files." And so, Scott and I started to do some stories about fentanyl. ![]() And then the Chinese, Chinese drug dealers, exploited that market by selling, importing-exporting fentanyl, which was cheaper and more potent. People addicted to them turned to heroin. And in fact, the fentanyl epidemic was the third wave of what started with prescription pills. And we compared notes and quickly realized that these two epidemics, fentanyl and prescription pills, were connected. And I asked him about this, because he was covering the prescription opioid epidemic. And so, I went and talked to my old friend Scott Higham.
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