YMMV / Dopesick

• Complete Monster: Dr. Richard Sackler is portrayed in this docudrama as an emotionless, clinical sociopath driven by narcissism to "cure the world of its pain" and surpass his uncle Arthur in renown. Richard developed the drug OxyContin through Purdue Pharma and propagated the false claim that it is less addictive than other opioids, as he used bribery, blackmail, and incentives to convince doctors across the country to distribute the drug haphazardly. Though Oxy begins addicting countless people, Richard refuses to halt his production and pushing of the drug on a massive scale, maliciously ignoring or flat-out silencing concerns over the danger. When tens of thousands of people have their lives ruined or ended by Richard's mismanagement of Oxy and law enforcement begins investigating, Richard uses one of his own advisors as a scapegoat and continues to peddle Oxy without a single shred of remorse for his crimes, going so far as to develop an Oxy offshoot specifically meant to be marketed towards children.

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