Michael Keaton confronts US opioid crisis in 'Dopesick'US actor Michael Keaton stars in "Dopesick," a television drama about America's newest drug epidemic: the opioid crisisLOS ANGELES - Before he became Batman, Michael Keaton made his dramatic film debut in "Clean and Sober," an unflinching look at drug addiction during the United States' 1980s cocaine craze. Ahead of next year's superhero movie "The Flash" -- in which Keaton plays an older version of Batman -- he stars in "Dopesick," a television drama about America's newest drug epidemic: the opioid crisis. The series, streaming on Hulu from October 13, is based on Beth Macey's non-fiction book "Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America." It explores how Purdue Pharma aggressively pushed OxyContin, a highly addictive prescription painkiller blamed for the country's opioid crisis that has caused half a million US overdose deaths since 1999. In the television series, Keaton plays a doctor in a small mining town, and Dawson a government narcotics agent, who each begin to uncover the scale of the burgeoning crisis.

Source: Bangkok Post October 10, 2021 01:18 UTC