Richard Sackler begins to launch a powerful new painhugger, a rural doctor is introduced to the drug, a coal miner plans her future, a DEA Agent learns of blackmarket pills, and federal prosecutors decide to open a case into OxyContin.

Dopesick Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - First Bottle
• s01e02 - Breakthrough Pain
• s01e03 - The 5th Vital Sign
• s01e04 - Pseudo-Addiction
• s01e05 - The Whistleblower
• s01e06 - Hammer the Abusers
• s01e07 - Black Box Warning
• s01e08 - The People vs. Purdue Pharma

Dopesick Show Summary

The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of 'one percenter' Big Pharma Manhattan.