ABC News’ Elizabeth Schulze spoke with director and executive producer Peter Berg about his new Netflix limited drama series “Painkiller” which chronicles the story of the opioid epidemic.
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Look its not the Dr's fault or pharmaceutical. as a therapy use for chronic pain people just abuse them .I have used for the last 20 years and only when my pain 😢 in servers only
I liked it all but the comparisons to the crack epidemic. If we're being honest, the Black population were/are the VICTIMS of crack and the CIA and US Government are the Sacklers but the series played Blacks as the pushers victimizing their own communities. Thats true but thats the small part of it. No CIA pumping coke into Black communities, no crack epidemic. Period.
Hmm big pharma using their own in house research to sell a “cure” … haven’t seen that one before
I looked at this guy in pain after accident. Why not take the drugs even if it's addicted? If it's helping him…take whatever you need. Remember this, you only have one life, your life and you only live once. So try to make the best of it. I rather be addicted, die early than live your life in pain. Death is your best friend and pain is your worst enemy.
THE SELLERS ARE MOVE BY EXTREME GREED (PERDUE) FUELS THIS EPIDEMIC, COMPLACENCY AND SOULLESS INDIVIDUALS ARE THE CONSUMERS, WE HUMANS SOMETIMES WANT TO FEEL GOOD AVOIDING REALITY AND CONSUME EVIL DRUGS, ALCOHOL. WE ALL ARE TO BLAME.
I saw the show and i was disappointed by the conclusion. This family did so many damages to the population of Occident and they received only a tap on theirs fingers ? And you know what? The same problem is coming with all the stimulants prescribed in school , sports and life in general. That's the reason why people can't not be able to concentrate more than 5 minutes on a subject or in a work. Pharmaceutics make a lot of money without the comprehension of the long term effects of theirs products. Greed is not good.
Painkillers is a wonderful show but next month , it's gonna be forgotten for somewhere else problems. This should be show in every schools ans media in Occident. It's the destruction of the social tissue of the society. It's like that than Roman empire collapse . No morality versus to be rich . I'm myself on opioïds since 18 years and never never never i used my medicine for re creative uses. And as i said on another commentaries, the character who deceived me the most is the son of the garagist acting cowardly. He knows that his father's problems were his fault and never admit it ??? really ??? . A nation with eternal adolescence mind is in dangerous way. Congratulations to all the participants to this shaking show. They were all perfect.
I like Netflix's <painkiller>, it is something I have never seen or heard before, a very interesting topic.
Why do you think the US army murdered and lied to invade Afghanistan?
Fake news. The is no opioid epidemic.
I’m so sick of chronic pain patients always being under looked and oftentimes ignored. Where’s our story? Some people are going to abuse anything including Tylenol, alcohol, cigarettes, etc. Why punish people who have legitimate medical disease who need pain medication in order to function. I’m one of them. Making it very difficult to get doctors to prescribe pain medication isn’t the answer. Demonizing pain medications isn’t the answer. OxyContin isn’t a demon drug. It’s long-acting codeine. The pendulum has swung too far back that pain patients are suffering unnecessarily and because the Federal Government has frightened doctors so these patients either turn to alcohol, illegal drugs, or worse commit suicide. Don’t punish us and our doctors. Even people who have cancer are finding it difficult to obtain pain medication. There needs to be a light shown on us.
why pretend the sacklers weren't jewish?
How dare we the people let these billionaires murder thousands without paying the price. Every sackler family member that was involved should have been prosecuted and put in prison for life.
💯⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💯 Simply magnificent series that gets you inside this true story totally worth it !!!!!
Love how we feel for it again with Covid vaccine lol
Good movie 🎥
And they wonder why mfs are crazy out here. They can kill people and never serve time in prison.
As a chronic pain patient who’s lost 10 years of my life forced to live on my couch because I’m at an 8 on the pain scale 24/7 and the DEA won’t let my pain Doc prescribe me what I need (90 mg methadone daily) because it’s over some random limit they pulled out of their ass! So I get 30 mg which isn’t enough to clean or cook, I live on my couch randomly screaming out in pain. Perhaps people who aren’t doctors shouldn’t be forcing medical decisions that they don’t know enough about onto the public. 🎤 drop
2/10 ☆ is it a true story or not?!
dont waste your time.
somebody needs to rescue and save the white woman stuck inside izo aduba and return her CLEAN SMELLING and safe to her Family. @ Matthew Broderick, ya still soft and girly. You and your wife are old and forgotten. Pill ppl should parish its thier choice and fate.
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nothing complex Sacklers with doctors help sold opiods🎉
Truth😊 won't go Nowhere😊Pushers they were got more rich😊
Truth won't go Nowhere😊Pushers they were😊
Pushers😊 they were😅
The Sackler family made billions off of the misery of humans in pain. They caused trillions of dollars in damages and killed hundreds of thousands of people, but they want to settle for $3 billion, while their net worth is estimated at over $20 billion. They are disgusting murderers, filthy rich swine.
4 of the top 5 states with the highest number of drug overdose deaths? The Republican-led states of Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia.
The opoiod addiction in the us pisses me off because myself and other people who actually need pain medication can no longer get it and are reduced to OTC meds that barely work, simply because other idiots either became addicted to their meds or they sold them to other people on the street. It's utter BS!
Saw, "Netflix Painkiller", and got excited. Thought it was about the Judas Priest album. 😂😂😂
Nothing is ever done until Hollywood has made their profitable documentaries and books 🤮
Never took painkillers. But. I seen what they can do. My father, the morning before he died, had Parkinson's and pneumonia. And no one know he have pneumonia. By the time, call 9-11 his face deformed by pain and fear and suffering from loss of wind. His cheeks were bulging out of his face. He was a mess, when EMT's take him to hospital. That evening, before people take him off life support, he look many years younger and rested. I ask nurse. She say 'got him on the drip.' Pain killer good. Not bad. Like gun argument. Not gun's fault. Not 'drip' fault.
Big Pharma, Greed, and follow the money, not complicated
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Wait hulu did this already with Michael Keaton
The series was not quite as well made as Hulu's Dopesick (that felt more authentic and less slapstick), but the Netflix series was definitely binge-able.