Is OxyContin Still Prescribed Today? What Happened To Purdue’s Drug After Painkiller’s Ending In Real Life

After the horrors depicted in Netflix’s Painkiller, many viewers want to know what happened to the Purdue Pharma drug OxyContin. Painkiller is a dramatized series that tells the rise and fall of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family. Characters of Painkiller include fictional versions of pharmaceutical reps, Purdue executives, and investigators. But most devastatingly, throughout the show, narratives of victims show the firsthand damage caused to families by OxyContin and the eventual Opioid Crisis.