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Rudy Giuliani defended Purdue Pharma, helping the company continue selling OxyContin. Netflix's new show "Painkiller" dramatizes this true story.

Netflix's Painkiller tells the true story of the Sackler family and the opioid crisis, but fictionalizes some of its main characters.

How was Richard Sackler involved in the crisis and where is he now? Here is everything you need to know about Richard Sackler.

Dale King, a former Army Captain, is trying to save opioid addicts in his Portsmouth, Ohio hometown

Dale King, a former Army Captain, is trying to save opioid addicts in his Portsmouth, Ohio hometown

The Sacklers have been given immunity from civil lawsuits over the opioid crisis in exchange for $6billion that will go towards treatments for addiction.

The Sackler family name is now inextricably linked to the crisis of opioid addiction that has the US in a stranglehold. The family headed up Purdue Pharma, maker of the painkiller OxyContin.

'There’s not a billionaire on this planet that is not fucked up,' says the Nanette comic

It saddens me that we allow industry medical misinformation to harm patients but pass legislation threatening individual doctors' speech.

Making them pay is important but it’s not going to stop drugmakers from endangering public health.