Netflix's "Painkiller" loudly addresses the extremely huge elephant in the room. The opioid epidemic is the white people's version of the crack epidemic, but worse – because it's legal.
The limited series "Painkiller" is a dramatized, scripted take on the Sackler family's role in the rise of the opioid epidemic and the collection of people who benefited. Written and directed by Pete Berg, "Painkiller" follows a colorful cast of characters whose ambition, greed, curiosity and pain actively crowned Purdue Pharma's OxyContin.
