Exposing a $1,900,000,000 Pharma Company
Long-form44:42
Published Aug 5, 2026, 7:30 PM · 2mo ago
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This is the story of a German pharmaceutical company, a billion-dollar opioid business, and a crisis spanning multiple continents.
Is a new opioid crisis looming — one made in Germany?
This video is based on original reporting by The Examination, a nonprofit newsroom investigating preventable health threats.
More on this story: https://www.theexamination.org/articles/gruenenthal-pushed-its-latest-opioid-as-a-safer-option-people-around-the-world-got-hooked?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=creator_mention&utm_content=fern_gruenenthal_opioid
Explore the investigation and full series: https://www.theexamination.org/series/world-of-pain
Follow The Examination:
Website: https://theexamination.org
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnXpJDgzBRbNcjnNTJpa42Q
Newsletter: https://theexamination.org/newsletter
You can find Tanja Albroscheit’s petition here:
https://www.change.org/p/dr-klaus-rei...
Many thanks as well to Maria Christoph from Paper Trail Media. Her in-depth article for the German magazine Spiegel is available here:
https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesel...
To better understand the situation in West Africa, make sure to watch this ARTE documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r3E_-O44io
Corrections:
0:01: "Australien” should read “Australia".
Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oemg0YMbFv4QM5WNVJHGdGOHg64W-d52fyubEhj77xU/edit?usp=sharing
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