DOPE SICK SERIES

The panel discussion was recorded in KFF’s Washington, D.C., offices without a live audience due to COVID-19. Check out the new Dopesick Limited Series Teaser starring Michael Keaton Let us know what you think in the comments below. 13, with new installments of the miniseries available on Hulu every Wednesday.

The role of politics in the funding for, and availability of, different types of treatment.After the last dose of heroin, a person may experience the onset of withdrawal symptoms within 6-12 hours and continue to experience these symptoms for 5-7 days. The current state of the opioid crisis, marked by a record-high 93,000 deaths from drug overdoses in 2020 the expansion of the problem beyond largely rural, white communities and the rise of highly addictive synthetic opioids like fentanyl Heroin is a short-acting opioid, which means that its effects diminish rapidly, leaving the individual subject to feeling dope sick within a matter of hours.The important role played by medication-assisted treatment, which combines medications with counseling and behavioral therapy in the treatment of opioid addiction.How the show employed the tools of fiction, such as composite characters, to tell a larger truth.The panel discussion, moderated by Chaseedaw Giles, KHN’s digital strategy and audience engagement editor, featured executive producer, writer and showrunner Danny Strong journalist Beth Macy, who authored the book on which the show is based KHN correspondent Aneri Pattani, who has reported extensively on opioid policy, substance use and mental health and KFF senior policy analyst Nirmita Panchal, whose analytical work focuses on mental health and substance use. The panelists brought their different lenses - creative, journalistic and policy - to focus on the devastating impact of opioids on ordinary Americans and the often ineffective efforts to combat this continuing public health emergency. KFF’s journalists and policy experts have been tracking the devastating epidemic with on-the-ground stories as well as data-driven analyses for a number of years. Based on journalist Beth Macy’s book, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug That Addicted America, Danny Strong has created an eight-episode miniseries that dives into many of the different elements of the opioid epidemic, from the those addicted to the bigwig executives that pushed it, enlisting an all-star ensemble to tell the story. The event brought together the lead creative powers behind the show along with a journalist from KHN and a policy expert from KFF to unpack the making of “Dopesick” and what the show has to say about the origins of the opioid crisis. KFF’s Kaiser Health News and Hulu hosted a panel discussion in October about Hulu’s miniseries “Dopesick.”

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