Who is responsible for the opioid crisis: Purdue Pharma, the FDA, patients, people with a drug use disorder, or all the above? Where lies the blame? Anand Giridharadas, New York Times bestselling author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, concludes: “if you look at the way in which the opioid crisis killed people, it is a direct, malicious, forthright set of choices by various actors that predictably, reliably, foreseeably killed very large numbers of people.” Do you agree with this assessment? Discuss.

Who is responsible for the opioid crisis: Purdue Pharma, the FDA, patients, people with a drug use disorder, or all the above? Where lies the blame? Anand Giridharadas, New York Times bestselling author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, concludes: “if you look at the way in which the opioid crisis killed people, it is a direct, malicious, forthright set of choices by various actors that predictably, reliably, foreseeably killed very large numbers of people.” Do you agree with this assessment? Discuss.