Painkiller
The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.
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"First of all, I am not going to score this show. I find it not really appropriate to score a show that is about the pain and immense sorrow that is caused to people. And the main reason is that still many millions of people struggle daily with the (after-)effects of what the Sackler family did... As society, we need to ask ourselves how on earth it is possible that the Sackler family - whom is directly responsible for addicting millions of people worldwide - is allowed to get away with what they have done. And it is not only the additing of so many people... No! It is the consequential deaths..."
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This series is based on Barry Meier's book Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic and the New Yorker article "The Family That Built the Empire of Pain," by Patrick Radden Keefe.
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The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.