Purdue’s role in the crisis is highlighted in the show, but also in recent headlines: The entire Sackler family just won sweeping immunity from future lawsuits in a controversial bankruptcy deal that the Department of Justice is now moving to block. Hulu’s show is hitting the streaming waves at a particularly timely moment. We shouldn’t be following f-ing Richard Sackler’s playbook.” ‘They’re the culprits and the criminals,’ he said. “When we judge people who use drugs, we’re following Richard Sackler’s playbook,” Macy said, referring to the former chairman and president of Purdue Pharma. That year, she found herself covering a heroin overdose uptick in a wealthy suburb of Roanoke, she told TheWrap, and noticed while covering many subsequent stories that the blame was too often on the victims rather than the root cause of the crisis. Strong allowed Macy to provide input on casting to help “the viewer to come away with this idea that there are solutions to this.”Īccurate representation of the overdose crisis is important to Macy, who recalls writing her first story on the topic back in 2012.

“I absolutely adore Beth and am so thrilled she joined us on this journey to tell this important story.” She was in the writer’s room as our resident expert and a passionate advocate for shooting the show in her home state of Virginia,” Strong told TheWrap. “Beth Macy was a wonderful member of the ‘Dopesick’ team. “We laugh about this because we’re like best buds now, but I couldn’t tell if he liked me or what. Macy even has a cameo in the third episode (seen below) as a fictional medical expert on the board of the Journal of Pain. How ‘Dopesick’ Changed Michael Keaton’s and Kaitlyn Dever’s Outlooks on Taking Medication

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