![]() ![]() Ox圜ontin is a product of Purdue Pharma, which used to be an obscure pharmaceutical company, but which gradually grew under the ownership of the Sackler family. Unlike previous drug epidemics, this one didn’t start in the cities-it began in rural places like Appalachia and the Rust Belt before eventually moving into urban and suburban centers. Jesse was born right around the start of the epidemic, when Ox圜ontin was first released. Seeking to understand the epidemic from another angle, Macy speaks to Kristi Fernandez, whose son, Jesse Bolstridge, was a high school football star who died of an overdose. ![]() Many have blamed Jones for bringing tragedy to the region, due to the deaths and crimes that came in the wake of the heroin he imported, but even after Jones’s imprisonment, opioids continue to decimate the region, particularly a new synthetic drug called fentanyl. ![]() On a hot day in 2016, Beth Macy goes to a federal prison in West Virginia to interview the former heroin dealer Ronnie Jones. ![]()
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