FORCE OF HABIT

1 GOING BIG…

ith the opioid drug crisis in America becoming almost too big to comprehend, new eight-part series aims to dramatise and personalise its impact. Writer/showrunner Danny Strong (, ) says he fell down a rabbit hole researching the origins of the show (which is inspired by Beth Macy’s] did, and how they were able to keep doing it over and over for years no matter what was happening, no matter how they were exposed,” he says. “The lying, the manipulation, the influence peddling… it’s such a shocking story that I just couldn’t get it out of my head. I felt like we had to expose it in some kind of big, mainstream way.”