![]() The way Finnix, a conscientious doctor who works tirelessly to help his local community, is seduced by Purdue’s blandishments into becoming a shill for Ox圜ontin is painful to behold. In this telling, the company conned doctors and members of the public into thinking they were making a generic public service bulletin about painkillers, called “I got my life back”, then sneakily repackaged it as an Ox圜ontin commercial.Ĭompany salesman Billy Cutler (Will Poulter) becomes the embodiment of Purdue’s sell-at-all-costs approach, badgering Dr Finnix to attend Purdue’s all-expenses-paid five-star weekends in a luxury resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. ![]() Lax FDA regulations permitted Purdue to get away with a string of outrageous claims, such as the unproven assertion that fewer that one per cent of Ox圜ontin users would become addicted to it. Michael Stuhlbarg is in award-winning form with his portrayal of Richard Sackler, a cold-blooded, mercilessly ambitious tycoon who seems to convince himself of his own righteousness even while he’s deliberately bending the facts and tilting the playing field to suit his own megalomaniac ambitions. ![]() As the Purdue company cynically shapes its marketing and promotional campaigns, selling Ox圜ontin as a super-painkiller which, miraculously, is the only opioid ever invented that isn’t addictive, the sinister Sackler dynasty which owns the company looms ominously in the background. Creator Danny Strong has assembled a cross-section of characters – including Kentucky doctor Samuel Finnix (Michael Keaton, pictured above), Justice Department agents Rick Mountcastle and Randy Ramseyer (Peter Saarsgard and John Hoogenakker), DEA agent Bridger Meyer (Rosario Dawson) and young coal miner Betsy Mallum (Kaitlyn Dever) – through which different dimensions of the saga are channelled. Dopesick is the story of how the chickens came home to roost when the unscrupulous drugs monolith Purdue launched its painkilling drug Ox圜ontin on an unsuspecting American public, and from the mid-1990s into the 2000s set in motion one of the most devastating health scandals in medical history.īased on the book by Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America (how’s that for a tight, snappy title?), Dopesick achieves the none-too-easy feat of converting a fact-packed real-life story into a series that binds together strands of convincing human drama while never losing its grip on the overarching story. ![]()
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