The team behind netflix's opioid drama 'Painkiller' want you to be furious after watching
Uzo Aduba as Edie Flowers in Netflix's"Painkiller."OxyContin began sweeping the nation thanks to a concerted marketing campaign to health care providers by Purdue Pharma in the late 1990s. The company was also able to get approval from the Food and Drug Administration for OxyContin to go on the market after providing a misleading description of the drug claiming it was less addictive than other opioids.
The Sackler family has been ordered by courts around the country to pay billions in compensation to victims and their families.Aduba stars as Edie Flowers, a determined investigator for the U.S. Attorney's Office who is worried about a new opioid spreading across the country, OxyContin. Matthew Broderick plays Richard Sackler, the Purdue Pharma chairman, in the Netflix limited series"Painkiller.""They are doing the exact same thing as every crack dealer on every corner in America, except they're getting rewarded for it, getting rich off of it, and my brother is in a prison cell right now, rotting." Flowers passionately tells him."What is the difference? They know they are killing people. They know it.
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