PBS NewsHour

January 20, 2019 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

On this edition for Sunday, Jan. 20, no compromise in sight as shutdown enters day 30, and troubling details emerge on how Purdue Pharma allegedly marketed prescription painkiller OxyContin. Also, after 23 years, a paralyzed outdoorsman designs a bike and cycles through the woods again. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York

Behind Purdue Pharma’s marketing of OxyContin

8m 9s

In June, the state of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma, which manufactures the prescription painkiller OxyContin, alleging that the family controlled-company misled patients about the dangers of the opioid drug. Now, new details about the company’s marketing strategy have emerged from the case. New Yorker’s Patrick Radden Keefe joins Hari Sreenivasan with the details.

Previews + Extras

  • Paralyzed outdoorsman designs bike to cycle woods again: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Paralyzed outdoorsman designs bike to cycle woods again

    S2019 E21 - 8m 55s

    Christian Bagg was an avid outdoorsman when a 1996 accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. As a mechanical designer, he spent years attempting to create a wheelchair that could withstand the rugged trails of the Canadian Rockies near his home in Alberta. Then two years ago, his experiments finally paid off. NewsHour Weekend's Christopher Booker reports.

  • Day 30 of shutdown: If compromise seems hopeless, what next?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Day 30 of shutdown: If compromise seems hopeless, what next?

    S2019 E21 - 4m 37s

    The hardest part about ending the government shutdown, now in it’s 30th day, is that both parties have long standing ideals about immigration that align with the people they represent, says NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Jeff Greenfield. So it might take something drastic to break the impasse, Greenfield tells Hari Sreenivasan.

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