Painkiller
THURSDAY, AUG. 10
ORIGINAL DRAMA OxyContin was promoted as a nonaddictive pill that would end pain. Instead, it brought agony. This six-episode series dramatizes how the prescription opioid, manufactured by drug company Purdue Pharma, led to a massive rise in addiction and deaths. Here are its real and composite players.
Purdue’s owners, the Sackler family, especially cunning president and chairman Richard (Matthew Broderick, above center, with John Rothman and Sam Anderson). Exec producer Eric Newman compares Purdue to the Mexican cartels in his hit show . Director and exec producer Peter Berg notes, “They knew
