Somehow, everything that Purdue does to turn Americans into opioid addicts doesn’t technically count as a crime … which is maddening to watch. A recap of ‘Blizzard of the Century’ and ‘Is Believed,’ episodes three and four of Netflix’s ‘Painkiller.’
Everyone expects Attorney General Karl Racine to strike out in his lawsuit against the Commanders, Dan Snyder and the league. But a lot can happen now that someone has picked up a bat.
The eight-episode series is a devastating indictment of the American pharmaceutical industry. Nearly 1 million people have died in the US since 1999 from drug overdoses and over 70 percent of such deaths have involved an opioid.