The BBC has removed the “true story” description of TV drama Dopesick, which explores opioid addiction in America, from the show’s synopsis on iPlayer. In a note posted on the broadcaster ...

The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Purdue Pharma, to a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA.

Richard Sackler launches a powerful new painkiller and a rural doctor is introduced to the drug; also, a coal miner plans her future, a DEA Agent learns of black market pills, and federal ...