Showrunner Danny Strong and stars Peter Sarsgaard, Rosario Dawson, Kaitlyn Dever and Will Poulter talk about Dopesick, their limited series that tackles the opioid epidemic and “crimes of Purdue Pharma”
He adds, “And the takeaway is you have a 16-year-old son and he plays football and he has a knee injury, he gets prescribed OxyContin and he becomes addicted to it and his entire life changes. This can happen to a woman driving a car who gets a shoulder injury. I think it’s a dirty little secret that a lot more Americans share than talk about.”
In addition to listening to podcasts, reading articles and Beth Macy’s book of the same name that inspired the series, the actors also connected with their real-life counterparts, sometimes through prep by
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