There's no way that legal drugs could be bad, right?
I mean, they're prescribed
  by doctors.
Hate to break it to you,
 but some prescription drugs
are almost identical
to street drugs.
Hate to break it to you,
 but some prescription drugs
Kids across America take
the prescription drug Adderall,
which is an amphetamine.
But you know what else
  is an amphetamine?
Meth.
I'm gonna need
 to confiscate that.
Oh, boy, I've got
   a lot of drugs.
The chemical composition
   of the two drugs
is nearly identical,
   and in one study,
people who took both couldn't
   even tell the difference.
So, I should stop
taking Adderall?
No, Adderall still helps
   a lot of people.
But the fact remains,
   we're giving kids
essentially the same drug
 we make scary TV shows about.
I am the one
   who concentrates.
And the line gets blurrier.
Uh...
But there are no
  prescription drugs
as bad as, like, heroin.
Actually, heroin was first
marketed and sold
by the drug company Bayer.
You know,
the aspirin people.
(coughing)
Mm, cough, eh?
Well, take two heroin
and call me in the morning.
Wait, so anyone could
just go into a store
and buy heroin?
Yep, they even gave it
  to kids.
(coughing)
You little rascal.
Now, back to the coal mines
   with ya!
Heroin was considered so safe,
one medical journal
even claimed that
there was no danger
of acquiring a habit.
Well, now, we know better.
I mean, doctors don't prescribe
   drugs like that anymore.
Yeah, they do.
 All the time.
Heroin is an opioid,
so when it was banned,
scientists just invented
  new opioids
that act on the exact
 same receptors in the brain.
Heroin's illegal.
Well, this isn't heroin,
  it's... OxyContin.
Let's advertise
the (bleep) out of it.
And so, they did.
In the '90s,
drugmaker Purdue
started marketing
   OxyContin like crazy,
producing weird swag
like plush toys,
golf balls,
and even a swing CD.
And OxyContin's
  popularity soared.
My elbow really hurts, Doc.
Yeah, well, take two Oxy
and call me in the morning.
This led to a surge
 in painkiller abuse
and overdoses.
It's just that
it really hurts,
and it's probably gonna
 hurt for a long time.
So, if you could just
   scribble, scribble, scribble!
