Bitter pill
TV & Satellite Week|October 21, 2023
Chris Evans and Emily Blunt star in a true story about a corrupt drug company
Bitter pill

NETFLIX Pain Hustlers

NEW

Available: Friday 27 October

Genre: Drama

Following Matthew Broderick’s Painkiller and Michael Keaton’s Dopesick, here’s our next dose of addictive ‘big pharma’ drama inspired by the real-life tale of an American opioid company cashing in on people’s suffering.

Pain Hustlers is based on a New York Times Magazine article and book by Evan Hughes, who investigated how a small opioid company profited from peddling a pain-relief spray for cancer that contained addictive drug fentanyl.

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