TechCheck+ 'Dopesick' Creator Danny Strong 9/2/22

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🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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CNBC's Carl Quintanilla brings on Danny Strong, executive producer, writer and director of Hulu’s ‘Dopesick’ for the latest installment of "Binge." The Emmy-nominated miniseries starring Michael Keaton brings the opioid crisis and crimes of the Sackler family into full view. Strong discusses the challenges he faced pitching the project, the pressure that comes with telling real-life stories, competition in a content-saturated landscape, and how ‘Dopesick’ aims to redefine the stigma around addiction. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Joining us today, Danny Strong, creator, writer, and showrunner of Doapsick on Hulu.
0:06.0	Danny, it's great to have you with us. Thanks for the time.
0:08.0	Thanks so much for having me. I really appreciate it.
0:11.0	And congratulations on the success and the Emmy Noms, but I think maybe most importantly is just the social impact you've had with the show.
0:20.0	And I have to imagine, given with
0:22.7	what I've read about your origins of the story, you were moved by the story, right? I'd say you
0:29.0	were outraged. Yeah, I knew very little about the facts when I originally started reading it.
0:34.3	And I was stunned, angered, and I couldn't believe how one company that was
0:41.8	micromanaged, that was run by a single family could cause so much destruction in this country
0:48.7	for this very small group of people to make billions of dollars. It was a stunning story to me.
0:55.0	And the facts of the case that they had pled guilty to in 2007 as a company, I thought
1:01.4	people need to understand what this company has already pled guilty to the actions that
1:07.0	they had committed to lie about a dangerous narcotic claiming that it was in fact safe and non-addictive when it was not.
1:14.6	Right. Do you think to you is the nugget of the story about the cultural backdrop, right? What happened to America that allowed this to happen? Or is it about the behavior of the Sacklers in Purdue?
1:28.3	Is it about regulators and maybe their lack of attentiveness? Or is it really a combination?
1:34.3	Well, I don't think it's the cultural backdrop because they created the cultural backdrop that turned into the opioid crisis.
1:40.3	I really think it's about the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma, the lies of this
1:46.5	company, but very much so about the regulators as well. I think you were spot on bringing that up
1:51.9	and how the institutions that are supposed to protect us from a criminal company like Purdue
1:57.3	Pharma not only failed us, but at times colluded with them, enabled them.
2:03.7	And, you know, this is a huge portion of how this all happened is because of systematic failures at the FDA.
2:12.5	And in some cases, it wasn't even failures.
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