How Netflix's Painkiller uncovers the origins of the opioid crisis
), the former chairman and president of Purdue Pharma—to the middlemen—the sales reps deployed to blanket the country —to the everyday Americans whose lives were irrevocably changed by the drug. At the bottom, Edie Flowers, a tenacious investigator for the U.S. Attorneys’ Office tries to trace the subsequent addiction crisis back to its rotten core. At its center,is about the key moments that led to the opioid epidemic—and how they could have been stopped, but weren’t.
“The crisis wasn't something that just happened, like a hurricane or a flood,” Gibey says in the show’s press notes. “It was something that was manufactured; manufactured by companies looking to make an egregious profit. I realized that this opioid crisis I've been hearing so much about was not just a crisis, it was really a crime.”—and the people they’re based on
“We live in a country where street drug dealers often go to jail,” co-showrunner Micah Fitzerman-Blue says in the press notes. “We don't live in a country where the corrupt corporate executives who made and marketed the drug often go to jail.”centers two fictional sales reps: Shannon Schaeffer , an ex-college athlete and new recruit, and Britt Hufford , a veteran sales rep who takes Shannon under her wing.
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