A documentary about artist Nan Goldin’s fight to hold members of the Sackler family to account for the opioid crisis is “a challenge to other artists” to use their power to expose corruption, its director Laura Poitras has said.
Goldin made the connection between the opioid crisis and the Aids crisis of the 80s. “There’s 10 million people in the world that still have Aids …
The opioid crisis has been linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the US over the last two decades.
The film examines the life and career of Goldin and her efforts to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, accountable for the opioid epidemic.