Currently streaming on Netflix, Painkiller is a series on the wide scale abuse of opioid drug Oxycontin in the US and how its overdose had caused countless tragic deaths across age groups. In 2021, Disney Hotstar had highlighted the same crisis in its series Dopesick. Purdue Pharma, the controversial inventor of Oxycontin faced multi-billion-dollar lawsuits for manipulating doctors to prescribe the drug for chronic pain. Its medical
( Originally published on Apr 22, 2019 )
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