Marketing OxyContin: Profits, Lives and Disinformation
Media documents are excerpts from a company memo from Purdue Pharma, an investigative reporting video, an online article and two government reports related to the marketing of OxyContin. Students analyze messages about the role of industry in fueling the opioid epidemic and the credibility of the media documents.
Marketing OxyContin: Profits, Lives and Disinformation
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Health, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Journalism, Consumer Education, US History And Government, US History, Civics And Government, Economics, Sociology, General Media Literacy, Library/Information LiteracyGrade Level(s)
High School, CollegeMedia Type(s)
Informational Text, News - Print, News - Video, Web VideoAuthor(s)
Sox SperryView Standards
Resource Standard Common Core ELA StrandReading For Science and Technical Subjects (RST), Speaking and Listening (SL)