Ndidiamaka, it is an horrifying account . I didn't know the extent of this horrendous story of greed and selfishness, which is simultaneously utterly compelling and unbearable to read. Too many parties are culpable: the staggering greed called the Sacklers, the phalanx of lawyers and capos who helped them get away with it, the public officials and politicians who took bribes with both hands, the institutions (all over the world) who gave them a sheen of respectability in exchange for blood money, the doctors who knowingly pumped opioids into people and the salesmen who helped them do it.

The public officials and politicians had a duty to stop this. They failed. Worse, more of these might be going on with no media coverage.