America's Opioid Crisis

America's love affair with opioids has had a devastating impact. Every 25 minutes a baby is born suffering from opioid withdrawal and a new generation are growing up with addicted parents. For years pharmaceutical companies made billions from the drugs, but now the lawsuits are piling up and so are the questions for the regulators who should have prevented the crisis. Our World traces why so many Americans became addicted and meets the children and the workers on the frontline who are now picking up the pieces.