Related Resources

Presentations and Workshops

OIDA (2025, May 6-8). The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: National Symposium 2025. Event page and symposium recordings.

OIDA (2024, July 2). Understanding the U.S. Opioid Overdose Epidemic through Analysis of the Opioid Industry Documents Archive: Digital Tools for Addressing a Public Health Crisis. Session recording.

OIDA (2024, May 13-16). The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: National Symposium 2024. Event page and symposium recordings.

OIDA (2023, May 5). Exploring the Opioid Industry Documents: Research Communities, Educational Opportunities, and Community Data. Event page and webinar recording.

Websites

OIDA (Last updated Fall 2024). OIDA Data Products. Explore datasets derived from OIDA.

OIDA (Last updated Fall 2024). OIDA Image Collection. Highlighting images to understand the opioid industry.

OIDA (Last updated Fall 2024). OIDA Toolbox. Tools for accessing the raw data behind OIDA.

OIDA (Last updated Summer 2024). Opioid Crisis Timeline. Chronicling notable dates in the opioid crisis as seen in OIDA documents.

OIDA (Last updated Spring 2024). OIDA Curriculum Library. Teaching materials available for download.

Minhee, C. (Last updated Summer 2024). Opioid Settlement Tracker.

National Library of Medicine. (Undated). Opioid Epidemic Web Archive. https://archive-it.org/collections/9280

U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (Last updated Winter 2023). Open Payments.

News Stories

Hornblower, S. (2025, April 25). How the FDA Helped Ignite, and Then Worsened, the Opioid Crisis. Bloomberg.

Dunn, C. (2024, December 26). UnitedHealth and CVS Received Millions in Opioid Rebates Through Medicare. Barron's.

Hamby, C. (2024, December 17). Giant Companies Took Secret Payments to Allow Free Flow of Opioids. The New York Times.

Westhoff, B. (2024, October 30). Slideshow: Opioid Advertisements From the Height Of the Crisis. substack.com/@benwesthoff - Drugs + Hip-Hop.

Dunn, C. (2024, October 11). Confidential Files Detail PBMs’ Backroom Negotiations—and Their Role in the Opioid Crisis. Barron's.

Bivens, M. (2024, September 5). The Conspiracy Widens. mattbivens.substack.com - The 100 Days.

Bivens, M. (2024, June 15). The Conspiracy to Game the Medical Literature. mattbivens.substack.com - The 100 Days.

Bivens, M. (2024, May 7). Truest Crime. mattbivens.substack.com - The 100 Days.

Buller, R. (2024, January). Corporate Strategy, National Tragedy. UCSF Magazine.

(2023). McKinsey: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. HBO.

(2023). Payback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash. KFF Health News.

Alltucker, K. (2022, December 8). 'Eat what you kill': How a fentanyl drugmaker bribed doctors, harmed patients and collected millions. USA Today.

Facher, L., Sheridan, K., and Silverman, E. (2022, October 14). Documents detail how pharmacy giants Walgreens, CVS, and Walmart failed patients in the opioid crisis. STAT.

Schmitt, K. (2022, October 4). Documenting Pharma’s Role in the Opioid Crisis. Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine.

Redden, M. (2022, July 21). How The CEO Of A Leading LGBTQ Rights Group Played A Role During The Opioid Crisis. Huffington Post.

Hamby, C. and Forsythe, M. (2022, June 29). Behind the Scenes, McKinsey Guided Companies at the Center of the Opioid Crisis. The New York Times.

Kornfield, M., Higham, S., and Rich, S. (2022, May 10). Inside the sales machine of the ‘kingpin’ of opioid makers. The Washington Post.

Hoffman, J. (2022, February 28). Were These Doctors Treating Pain or Dealing Drugs? The New York Times.

Chakradhar, S. and Ross, C. (2019, December 3). The history of OxyContin, told through unsealed Purdue documents. STAT.

(2019, July 23). The Records Revealed. The Washington Post.

Shulte, F. (2018, June 13). How America Got Hooked On A Deadly Drug. KFF Health News.

Reports

United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform: Opioid Investigation and Documents.

U.S. Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, Ranking Member's Office. Fueling an Epidemic, Report Four: Inside the Insys Strategy for Boosting Fentanyl Sales.

Research Articles

See the Opioids Industry Documents Bibliography for a list of articles and publications written using OIDA documents.

Books

Sherman, M. (2023) How We Hurt: The Politics of Pain in the Opioid Epidemic Oxford University Press.

Hansen, H. (2023) Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America. University of California Press. For an authors’ discussion about the book, please see The Dig podcast.

Higham, S. and Horwitz, S. (2022). American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry. Penguin Random House.

Hughes, E. (2022). The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup. Penguin Random House.

Keefe, P.R. (2021). Empire of Pain: the Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. Doubleday.

Sullivan, A. (2021). Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State. University of Minnesota Press.

Herzberg, D. (2020) White Market Drugs : Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America. University of Chicago.

Macy, B. (2018). Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America. Little, Brown and Company.

Meier, B. (2018). Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic. Penguin Random House.

Lembke, A. (2016). Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Quinones, S. (2015). Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. Bloomsbury.

Wailoo, K. (2014) Pain: A Political History. Johns Hopkins University Press.