'Painkiller' is a propulsive and compulsively watchable evisceration of the company (Purdue Pharma) and family (the Sacklers) that created a nationwide crisis.
frames its multi-pronged story through the questioning of Edie . An investigator with the U.S. Attorney’s office in Roanoke, Virginia, Edie agrees to recount her past inquiry into Purdue Pharma to federal lawyers once she realizes that the firm’s president, Richard Sackler , has finally been deposed.
Guided by her livid commentary, the series initially flashes back to 1998, with Edie looking into a doctor who’s falsifying X-ray billing records. During the course of that work, she accidentally learns about OxyContin, an unassuming little blue pill that’s quietly become a phenomenon. It’s also covertly turned into a burgeoning problem, as Edie witnesses at a local pharmacy where an addict causes a violent scene in an attempt to procure the drug.
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