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Pain Hustlers is a 2023 American crime comedy film co-produced and directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Wells Tower, based on the 2022 book of the same name by Evan Hughes. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The film is loosely based on the activities of the real world company Insys Therapeutics and their role in the US opioid crisis .
The scene comes deep into the new Netflix film “Pain Hustlers,” and it feels bracingly real and tragic. If only the rest of the movie, the latest in a string of opioid-themed films, felt the same.
Pain Hustlers is based on a journalistic account of opioid profiteering. The screenplay was written by Wells Tower, but the plot of the movie is heavily based on The Pain Hustlers, an exposé by ...
Painkiller is an American drama television miniseries created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster. [4] Based on Patrick Radden Keefe's New Yorker article "The Family That Built an Empire of Pain" and Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic by Barry Meier, [5] the series focuses on the birth of the opioid crisis, with an emphasis on Purdue Pharma, the ...
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) – fictional drug "Zydrate," a powerful and highly-addictive painkiller and hallucinogenic, manufactured by GeneCo, for people undergoing surgery; "graverobbers" sell a cheap version of Zydrate on the black market extracted from the blood of the dead; Repo Man (1984) – cannabis, cocaine and amphetamines
Pain Hustlers, starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans, is out now on Netflix, but the pharma satire ends up being an entertaining, but shallow, watch.
Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004), known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English doctor in general practice and serial killer.He is considered to be one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history, with an estimated 284 victims over a period of roughly 30 years.
Taylor Kitsch plays Glen Kryger, one of the people whose lives were ruined by the opioid crisis, in Netflix's Painkiller. His character is inspired by real people.