Dopestick - BBC2 sunday 10pm and all episodes on iPlayer

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I suspect this will be quite derpessing but maybe worth watching as it is based on how opiods became so wide spread in the US.

And how making money becomes more important that people's health. The never ending story of cover ups and worse.

Quite a starry cast including Michael Keaton

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ys7c

I watched this a couple of years ago and still think about it from time to time. I hadn't really grasped the extent of the opioid situation in the States and how despicable the behaviour of the Sacklers was. It is an utterly shocking watch. Brilliant acting too.

It is brilliant.

Hadn't realised it is 2 years old.

Then it wont have the latest news about the Sackler family.

Is it a spoiler to post a link to a recent news story about them?

The Sackler family is an American family who owned the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma and later founded Mundipharma. Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin. Purdue Pharma has been criticized for its role in the opioid epidemic in the United States. They have been described as the "most evil family in America", and "the worst drug dealers in history".

The Sackler family has been profiled in various media, including the documentary Crime of the Century on HBO, the book Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, the 2021 Hulu miniseries Dopesick, the 2022 Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and the 2023 Netflix mini-series Painkiller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family