DOPESICK: Fentanyl's Deadly Grip (2016)
- Directed by
- Shawney Cohen
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 52 min
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary follows people in Alberta, Canada whose lives have been upended by the powerful opioid fentanyl. It traces how the crisis started when the prescription painkiller OxyContin was reformulated, leading to counterfeit fentanyl pills that triggered a deadly epidemic in western Canada.
soberingintimatehard-hittingunflinchingurgentpersonalgrittyeducationaldisturbing
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