Nowadays, the short duration of audiovisual content is much more valued and this platform knows it.
The Netflix platform is the one that has best known how to adapt to changes in consumption of movies and seriesthat is why it is not new to find that in its catalog there are constantly renewals that are successful with viewers, such as the appearance of Lethal Medicinea production of only 6 episodes that shook customers and is increasingly seen.
In addition to being synthesized in a few episodes and being intense, it tells a real event that happened in the United States and was on the lips of the entire population for a long time. It is considered within the dramatic genre and since its recent arrival it quickly placed itself in the top 10 of the most chosen by users and it remained that way for entire weeks.
Lethal Medicine
What is Lethal Medicine about, a series available on Netflix
In recent years there have been images that shocked the United States and the rest of the world due to the crisis that opioids generated in society. Among the best-known drugs is fentanyl, but they also appear hydrocodone (vicodin), oxycodone and heroin, among others. The series focuses on the disasters caused by the mass adoption of these drugs of legal origin.
In its chapters it addresses both what it generated in the new addicts, as well as in the businessmen and pharmacists who were responsible for its expansion and massiveness without measuring the consequences generated in the patients to whom this drug was sometimes unjustifiably prescribed. . You can also see the evolution of the media treatment of the cases in a production that is a fictional representation of what has happened in recent years.
Netflix: Lethal Medicine trailer
Netflix: cast of Lethal Medicine
- Uzo Aduba as Edie.
- Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler.
- Sam Anderson as Raymond Sackler.
- Taylor Kitsch as Glen Kryger
- Carolina Bartczak as Lily Kryger.
- Tyler Ritter as John Brownlee
- John Ales as Dr. Gregory Fitzgibbons
- Ron Lea as Bill Havens
Source: Ambito
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