The Non-Fictionalized Version of Netflix’s “Painkiller”, Told By Someone Who Lived Through It
<p>I remember being maybe 12, which would have made it the year 1999. The same year the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma started truly cashing in on their newly developed drug Oxycontin, and advertising it as “believed to be less addictive than other opioids like it”. Key words there, as mentioned in the Netflix limited series, are<strong> “<em>Believed to be”.</em></strong></p>
<p>Believed to be by who? That’s what the limited series asks and I have an absolute answer — by only those people who profited off of making themselves believe it. Meaning the Sackler family primarily, along with every drug rep for the company and the gullible, greedy doctors they made believe it.</p>
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