The opioid crisis in America comes into sharp focus in the new Netflix original series Painkiller, based on the book Pain Killer by Barry Meier and the New Yorker Magazine article "The Family That Built the Empire of Pain" by Patrick Radden Keefe.
The scripted limited series follows the rise of OxyContin, viewed as Purdue Pharma's miracle drug that ultimately destroyed the lives of countless people who had been looking for relief from their pain.
