Going to try and watch tonight. 3 episodes out so far. It's about the Opioid epidemic. Presumably Perdue and Oxy, but maybe that's just a small piece.

Michael Keaton, Rosario Dawson, Peter Saarsgard.

If this topic interests you -- there's a great documentary called The Crime of the Century (HBO) and another called The Pharmacist (Netflix).

Champ Bailey said:

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Liking it so far. I still can't tell if they are trying to portray the CEO as a maniacal villain, or an idiot with a noble cause.

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If you read Empire of Pain, Richard Sackler comes off as an awkward rich kid who grew into a self-righteous ***** with no ethics or morals where money was involved.

Dopesick is must see TV IMO.

I have family members and close friends that have family members that have gotten addicted to opioids. These pills were prescribed by doctors like candy nationwide for years and years. Highly addictive and Purdue Pharma set the table for deceiving Doctors that their pill was not as addictive.

The pill use…the building up of a tolerance to the pills to the point that you need higher dosage to manage the pain…then the opioids themselves start causing the "pain", but you don't realize that pills are the cause. The users have nothing physically wrong with them anymore, but are in tremendous "pain" in their head caused by the pills!…the need for more and more…the withdrawals…the wanting to commit suicide because the "pain" is so bad. The migraine headaches caused by the pills. The constant anxiety of when and where you are going to get your next pill. The mental and phycological damage that causes the brain to fixate on getting another pill. That is all these people can think of…

The FDA is a joke.

Good people that were not "drug users" become so.

This series does an excellent job of depicting these people and what this drug and drugs like it do to them. They will forever be addicts fighting day by day to keep off the drug. It is a lifelong fight and one of the hardest drugs to stay clean from.

Thank goodness I have never been an addict, but I have seen enough of it up close.