pharmaceutical industry

The Crime of the Century is a two-part HBO Max documentary by Alex Gibney examining how pharmaceutical companies and drug distributors fueled America's deadly opioid crisis.

The Donald Cline case is an Indiana fertility-fraud case in which Indianapolis doctor Donald Lee Cline secretly used his own sperm to inseminate patients, fathering at least 94 children.

Dr. Johannes M. Berlin was a palliative care physician in Germany convicted of killing several terminally ill patients by administering overdoses of morphine and other medications under the guise of pain relief. The case sparked fundamental debate about the boundary between palliative care and murder, reshaping medical ethics standards across Europe.

A 40-year-old palliative care physician in Berlin stands accused of systematically murdering at least 15 patients between 2021 and 2024. Wire-tapped phone conversations revealed his crimes.

Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive who became infamous for raising drug prices 4,000%, was convicted of securities fraud in 2017 and sentenced to seven years in federal prison. He was released early in May 2022 after serving roughly four years.

In 1953, the Hooker Chemical Company sold a 16-acre abandoned canal site in Niagara Falls, New York, to the local school board for $1—knowing it contained nearly 22,000 tons of toxic industrial waste. Over the next 25 years, the buried chemicals seeped into homes, poisoned residents, and sparked America's first major environmental justice crisis.