DopesickBBC iPlayer, review by Yvette Huddleston
The opioid crisis in the US has been covered in various documentaries and recently also in the Netflix drama Pain Killer, as well as in movies such as last year’s Pain Hustlers starring Emily Blunt.
As it happens, they are exactly the kind of community that Purdue Pharma are targeting with their new drug. The narrative structure moves back and forth in time – the ‘present’ is 2005, at a hearing in which Finnix is one of the witnesses, saying of his patients gravely: “I can’t believe how many of them are dead now” – and the storyline takes us back to the mid-1990s when the drug first appeared.
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