Painkiller, a new Netflix limited series, is the latest drama to tackle the opioid epidemic. Of course, 2021’s Dopesick and 2022’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed have tackled the rise of Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family, and OxyContin addiction. But Painkiller might be most poignant of them all. Based on Barry Meier’s Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic, the Netflix series tells the story of six individuals who were greatly affected by the crisis.While many of those characters are working-class people who fell to addiction after receiving a painkiller prescription, Painkiller also tackles the… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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