The American crime drama mini-series "Painkiller" tells the story of the opioid crisis in the United States that engulfed the country in the mid-90s. In 2017, the authorities officially recognized this as a critical problem. The plot revolves around the investigation into the operations of the private pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma. Detective Eddie becomes the central figure in the events. The series is based on the material by Patrick Radden Keefe, "The Family That Built an Empire of Pain," which was published in The New Yorker.