LOS ANGELES – The miniseries Dopesick is the story of an enormous pharmaceutical firm dishonestly advertising a brand new painkiller – one which helped create the opioid disaster in the US and has led to greater than one million overdose deaths for the reason that Nineties.
However the misdeeds of Purdue Pharma, its billionaire homeowners and the federal government officers who helped approve the drug are so stunning, even the present’s star, Michael Keaton, had hassle believing all of it actually occurred.