In an interview with Q’s Tom Power, Berg discusses his new series, Painkiller, which details the role of Purdue Pharma in the devastating opioid crisis that's sweeping the U.S. and Canada today.
Based on Patrick Radden Keefe's New Yorker exposé "Purdue Pharma's reckless and deceptive marketing of OxyContin in the 1990s as safe, effective and non-addictive pain management.
[Richard Sackler] came up with a plan to take what is essentially heroin and put it into a little pill, and have doctors manipulate doctors into prescribing it.The show depicts multiple sides of the opioid epidemic — from the pawns used to push the drug, to the doctors who prescribed it, to the victims whose lives were devastated by addiction — but a substantial amount of screen time is devoted to exposing the Sackler family, the founders and owners of Purdue Pharma.
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