Netflix takes on the opioid issue in America with the scripted series Painkiller, which it calls “an examination of crime, accountability, and the systems that have repeatedly failed hundreds of thousands of Americans.” It looks specifically at how lives were altered by the creation of OxyContin.
Painkiller has six episodes. It is based on the Barry Meier book Pain Killer and the New Yorker article “The Family That Built an Empire of Pain,” by Patrick Radden Keefe.
