Hulu Views: Dopesick
Dopesick intrigued me, but I knew I needed to be in the right frame of mind to start watching it. I was the news director of a small radio station in Appalachia and reported on the increase in overdose deaths, crime, child abuse and everything else that went along with the opioid crisis. There were more drug store break-ins and robberies during that time than in the two other decades I was a journalist combined. And all they took was Oxycontin. The incidents in which toddlers were found wandering the streets alone in just diapers became common. Domestic violence incidents rose dramatically. And if you think reporting on these things daily doesn't do a number on you, you'd be wrong, More important and impactful that any of that, however, was the death of a friend and co-worker at the age of 30. I still think of him every time I hear a Beatles song. The Sackler Family – who ran Purdue Pharma, creators of Oxycontin – is the villain in this story, as in real life, and th...
