#Dope sick. full
#Dope sick. series

When Rosario talks about the war on drugs, and all the way up to what happens now, this is a David and Goliath story. Keaton echoed Dawson’s sentiments, with an explosive but accurate comment: “That’s the other thing, how it shines a light on white-collar-white and white-collar-America and its guilt, really. And there’s just no denying how much more connected we all are to this story.

She added: “I think that that’s just the fallacy of that, and how it was always a fallacy and has now just been broken open. “This is affecting people across the nation, across the world in a different way significantly than in the way they were able to kind of paint it before as affecting certain individuals and certain communities only.” Dever, from “Last Man Standing” fame, is great as the only female working in the mines who sustains an injury, and it’s all downhill from there-she even steals from her mama! Samuel Finnix, played by Keaton, gets strung out and must go into inpatient therapy-all the while asking his pharma rep for more pills. Halfway into the series, which premiered last month, I have seen a dramatization of the devastation of a drug that Purdue promoted as not being addictive, while at the same time recommending to doctors to increase dosages from 10mg all the way up to 160mg (the larger dose caused the company to change the shape of the pill to oval so the 160 would fit).

#Dope sick. series

The limited series is inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy. Defying all the odds, heroes will emerge in an intense and thrilling ride to take down the craven corporate forces behind this national crisis and their allies. The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America’s struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Big Pharma to a distressed Virginia mining community to the hallways of the Drug Enforcement Administration. The eight-part series examines how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Finnix on increasing his patients’ Ox圜ontin dosages. Finnix begins his decline into opioid addiction Will Poulter, as pharma representative Billy Cutler, tries to sell Dr. ROSARIO DAWSON, as Bridget Meyer, top left, clockwise Ray McKinnon as Jerry Mallum and Mare Winningham as Diane Mallum track down Diane’s jewelry at the local pawn shop Michael Keaton and Nurse Leah, played by Arischa Conner Dr.

#Dope sick. full

“Dopesick,” from executive producer Danny Strong and starring Michael Keaton, Rosario Dawson, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Will Poulter, John Hoogenakker, and Kaitlyn Dever, who plays Betsy Mallum, brings this health crisis to bear in full detail. The money will go toward drug treatment and abatement programs throughout the country. This settlement was levied because of the company’s part in pushing Ox圜ontin pills to patients and creating what we now know as the opioid crisis. Afterward, I was able to get his paper and read all about the Sackler family that runs Purdue Pharma, which was recently ordered to pay $4.3 billion and forfeit ownership of their company. Recently, I sat in on a Zoom panel, which was part of the summer CTAM Television Critics Association event, and among many shows this season, one that was incredibly educational and eye-popping was “Dopesick,” which is playing on the streaming service Hulu.Ī few years back on a Metra train into the city from Northbrook, I was curious about a Financial Times’ article that a fellow passenger was reading.