HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS’ WARNING: THIS DRUG MAY KILL YOU, PUTTING A HUMAN FACE ON THE U.S. OPIOID ADDICTION EPIDEMIC, DEBUTS MAY 1, EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO

With nearly a hundred Americans dying everyday from opioid overdoses, the U.S. currently faces the worst drug epidemic in its history. More people die from opioid overdoses annually in the U.S. than from car accidents or gun homicides, a number that has quadrupled since 1999. From journalist Perri Peltz (HBO’s “Risky Drinking”), WARNING: THIS DRUG MAY KILL YOU tells devastating personal stories of families who have lost a loved one to an opioid overdose, all of them the result of addictions that started with doctors’ prescriptions of dangerous painkillers such as OxyContin, Vicodin and Percocet. Also featuring harrowing pictures and cellphone videos, the documentary puts a human face on the epidemic of U.S. opioid addiction and its grave consequences when it debuts MONDAY, MAY 1 (10:00–11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO. <a href="https://medium.com/warnermediaent/warning-this-drug-may-kill-you-debuts-may-1-on-hbo-342dd1276161">Read More</a>