It’s almost hard to watch the devastatingly accurate depiction of the opioid epidemic – and its insidious invasion of America at the hands of scheming pharmaceutical executives – on the Hulu drama Dopesick.
It was equally hard to watch its star, Michael Keaton, previously break down while accepting a Screen Actor’s Guild award, dedicating the trophy to his sister, Pam, and her son, Michael Douglas Scichilone – who died in 2016 in Pennsylvania, a victim of the same epidemic chronicled in Mr Keaton’s show. The 34-year-old was lost to “fentanyl and heroin,” Mr Keaton said in a previous interview.
