CrimeCon: Dose of Death (In Person)

Manhattan prosecutor Ryan Sakacs will address prescription drug-related crimes. In 2011, Sakacs established the agency's Prescription Drug Investigation Unit to tackle the escalating issues of opioid diversion, addiction, and overdose fatalities in New York City and Long Island.

The National Opioid Epidemic has claimed the lives of over 500,000 Americans in the past two decades. Discover key criminal cases, including the prosecution of New York State's first drug kingpin under the Major Narcotics Trafficker statute, as well as an elderly doctor and his wife who colluded with gang members to distribute $80 worth of narcotics from their medical clinic on the Upper West Side.