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.