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Netflix Series Exposes How Purdue Pharma Fueled the Opioid Epidemic

  • Uzo Aduba plays an investigator looking into Purdue Pharma's role in the crisis.
  • Matthew Broderick portrays former Purdue chairman Richard Sackler, who pushed OxyContin's growth.
  • The show depicts the tactics Purdue used to convince doctors to prescribe opioids.
  • It draws from the book "Pain Killer" and New Yorker article on the Sackler family.
  • The series shows the devastation caused by Purdue's invention and marketing of OxyContin.
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