Joe Rannazzisi formerly of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration told 60 Minutes that a coalition of insiders allowed the drug distribution industry to market pills to unscrupulous pharmacies and pain clinics that ignited the opiate crisis. (CBS News 60 Minutes, October 17, 2017, by Bill Whitaker)
Forty-one attorneys and the Pennsylvania attorney general are demanding that the distributors release documents of their opiate dealings. (CBS News, October 16, 2017, by Demarco Morgan)