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Dopesick

American television miniseries
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The miniseries Dopesick (2021) explores the origins and impact of the opioid crisis in the United States. It primarily focuses on the role of the Sackler family and their pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, in aggressively marketing the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin. The series depicts how deceptive marketing practices downplayed the drug's risks, leading to widespread addiction and contributing to a devastating epidemic that has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. Directed by Barry Levinson, Dopesick highlights the human cost of the crisis and the legal battles that followed.1234

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  1. Sackler family
  2. The U.S. Opioid Epidemic
  3. How the Opioid Crisis Devastated Families, Communities, and, Ultimately, a Country - From opium to Oxy: How history set the stage for the opioid epidemic
  4. Barry Levinson

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