The Sackler family took another hit with Netflix’s Painkiller, a drama series that focuses on the effects of the opioid crisis in America. The six-episode limited series—which is directed by Friday Night Lights’s Peter Berg, and stars Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler—premiered on August 10.Sackler was the chairman and President of Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical company that created OxyContin and helped push it onto the market. The story is based on a New Yorker article by Patrick Radden Keefe titled, “The Family That Build an Empire of Pain”—as well as the book, Barry Meier’s Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic.”So much of this show is the conviction of a group of people,” ex… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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