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Artists must expose corruption, urges director of documentary on opioid crisis

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

The maker of lauded films including Risk (about Wikileaks) and Citizenfour (about Edward Snowden) was premiering All the Beauty and the Bloodshed in competition at the Venice film festival on Saturday. Continue reading.

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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed review – Nan Goldin’s gripping takedown of the Sackler pharma family

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

Goldin herself was prescribed Oxycontin for pain relief and, she says with the laconic candour that is evident throughout the film, she became addicted to the drug almost immediately. Poitras gives the footage of Goldin’s protests and covert meetings a nervy tension that wouldn’t be out of place in a political thriller.