For Peter Berg, the decision to make a show putting a spotlight on the opioid crisis was personal.
“To me, those disclaimers always devalue what people are about to see in some way,” Berg says. “It didn’t sit with me well for this one. I didn’t want people to be able to devalue the enormity of the tragedy and the magnitude of the brutality of this crisis.” “Painkiller” also tells the story of the people behind the marketing plan of OxyContin, including members of the Sackler family, like Richard Sackler, the former president of Purdue Pharma.
While the characters in the show are played by actors, several of them are based on real people, like the Sacklers, while others are fictional characters based on a collection of real people, like lawyer Edie Flowers and Purdue Pharma sales rep Shannon Schaeffer.
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