Immediately, the new series "Dopesick" is available on Disney+. Here you will find everything you need to know about the dramatic, star-studded story and the cast.

The eight episodes tell how tens of thousands of Americans became addicted to prescription painkillers. In addition, it is described how a pharmaceutical company caused the worst drug epidemic in American history. The series is based on a book "Dopesick: How Doctors and the Pharmaceutical Industry Are Making Us SICK."

Despite containing also heroes who fight against the seemingly overpowering large companies, the story still has heroes. Disney+ releases the eight episodes of the series weekly. With the current Disney+ promo period, you can watch it very cheaply.

Some of the protagonists in this work are based on actual people. Others are fictional, but based on multiple real people's experiences. Danny Strong, the author of the series, wanted to present an experience as diverse as possible of many affected people.

Betsy Mallum (Kaitlyn Dever) is one of the first patients to whom Dr. Harris applies this treatment. He initially instructs her to take only two pills per day, but she finds the medicine more addictive than the representative from the pharmaceutical company had led him to believe.

At first, he primarily appeared in film comedies and sitcoms, but director Tim Burton made him famous through his title role in the absurd horror comedy "Beetlejuice" and then with the successful Batman-movie of 1989 which made him world-wide recognized. Recently he was seen in the Oscar-winning true-life drama "Spotlight" about a shocking abuse and cover-up scandal of the Catholic Church.

Darstellerin Rosario Dawson plays the DEA agent Bridget Meyer in this movie. Dawson started her varied career with the drug drama "Kids" and can now boast 125 film and television appearances to her credit. Recently, she played the Jedi-Ritterin Ahsoka Tano in the Disney+ series "The Mandalorian", also making her mark as an unofficial star of Star Wars with this one role.

Michael Stuhlbarg stars in "Dopesick" as the chairman and president of Purdue Pharma. He was especially praised for his role in the Coen brothers' film, "A Serious Man." Since then, he has worked with some of the most acclaimed directors in the world and been successful in prestigious dramas like "Boardwalk Empire," "Fargo," "The Looming Tower" and "Your Honor."

Sein erstes Werk "Citizen Kong" wurde mehrfach verfilmt. Danny Strong has an interesting film and TV career in recent Hollywood history. On the one hand, he earned a living as a actor in series such as "Clueless - Important Things in Life", "Buffy: under the Influence of Demons", "Gilmore Girls", "Mad Men" and "Billions". Additionally, he built a successful career as a film and TV author. His first work, "Citizen Kong", was adapted multiple times.

The next TV movie about Governor Sarah Palin is called "Game Change - The Sarah-Palin Effect" and it tells the story of her election campaign as the Republican candidate for Vice President in 2008. Even though her scripts for the dystopian science fiction films "The Hunger Games - Part 1 and 2" were based on political intrigues and propaganda mechanisms, these films are still interesting.

Empire, a long-running series about a hip-hop mogul who has to choose one of his three sons to take over his record label, will transition into a new series about the empire's impact on politics, drugs, and the middle class. Before that, he has released "Dopesick" which is again a hot social issue dealing with the effects of drug abuse on society, the working class, and their vulnerable victims.

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