The creators of "Dopesick" have claimed that the character is emblematic of the situation many doctors across America found themselves in as a result of Purdue Pharma's deception, while the story of Finnix's own addiction was informed by that of Dr. Fennix is depicted as a hard-working doctor who has his patients' best interests at heart, but who, despite his initial misgivings, is won over by the compelling pitch of Billy Cutler (Will Poulter), a Purdue Pharma salesman pushing Ox圜ontin on unsuspecting doctors.īut was Dr. Samuel Fennix, saying that the quality of the writing on the show meant that there was very little he had to invent himself.
In an interview with USA Today, Michael Keaton described the pleasure he took in portraying Dopesick's lead character, Dr. Sackler oversaw the reformulation the drug with a newly-developed coating that supposedly gave the drug a slow release action and reducing the risk of opioid addiction, and rebranding it as Ox圜ontin. As Stat describes, in the late 1980s Sackler, who was then assistant to his father, the president of Purdue Pharma, concocted a scheme by which to circumvent the company's bestselling opioid painkiller, MS Contin, going off-patent. According to The New Yorker, Arthur passed on the belief to the younger Sacklers that they should "Leave the world a better place than when you entered it." In the second half of the 20th century, the Sackler name became synonymous with philanthropy and patronage of the arts, while they expanded their wealth to become one of the richest families in America.īut the actions of Richard Sackler would see the family rebranded in the 21st century as "the family that built an empire on pain," per The New Yorker.
Both were doctors, and the two shared options in the company with their older brother, Arthur, a psychiatrist. Sacker's father, Raymond, bought Purdue Pharma in 1952, along with his brother, Mortimer.
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