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Crushed: The Oxycontin Interviews
Crushed: The Oxycontin Interviews
Crushed: The Oxycontin Interviews
Crushed: The Oxycontin Interviews
Crushed: The Oxycontin Interviews
Crushed: The Oxycontin Interviews
Crushed: The Oxycontin Interviews
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“I was invincible, unstoppable, not even God could kill me.”
— Jordan, 20 years-old

In 1996, Purdue Pharma launched Oxycontin, offering “smooth and sustained pain control all day.”  Doctors, hospitals and patients immediately embraced the semi-synthetic opioid, making it the best-selling prescription painkiller in America, bringing in $31 billion in revenue for Purdue, and leading to widespread abuse and the opiate/heroin addiction epidemic that is now plaguing the country.   

Crushed presents five young adults – Jordan, Liz, Clayton, Rachel and Richard -- whose lives were forever changed by Oxycontin.  Their stories detail the nightmare of the pain relief/addiction/recovery/relapse cycle; describing how they got addicted; the drug’s effect on their lives and the people around them; what they had to do to sustain their habits; and their struggle to get clean or die. It is a provocative and intimate portrait of how Oxycontin devastates lives.

Produced by Tom Gorai and Steven Okazaki for Blackwood Entertainment Group & ShadowCatcher Entertainment, LLC

2010 / Documentary / 18 minutes