Will Poulter on Dopesick: 'It doesn't mean it can't happen elsewhere'
Will Poulter in Dopesick on Disney+.
Will Poulter joins a starry cast in the new series Dopesick, the story of how one company triggered one of the most scandalous drugs crises in US history. The drama series unravels the story of Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family. In the 1990s the company developed OxyContin, planting the seeds of an opioid epidemic.
The company convinced doctors to prescribe it for moderate pain, pushing the idea that fewer than one percent of patients would become addicted. Within the first years of the drug’s introduction, the company knew that the pills were being abused, stolen from pharmacies and driving a wave of addiction.
