{"id":468419,"date":"2022-06-28T15:34:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T12:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-american-pain-review-a-gripping-documentary-on-opioid-exploitation\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T15:34:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T12:34:18","slug":"watch-american-pain-review-a-gripping-documentary-on-opioid-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-american-pain-review-a-gripping-documentary-on-opioid-exploitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;American Pain&#8217; Review: A Gripping Documentary on Opioid Exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41438e23ca7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41438e23ca7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-american-pain-review-a-gripping-documentary-on-opioid-exploitation\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98American_Pain_Review_A_Gripping_Documentary_on_Opioid_Exploitation%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;American Pain&#8217; Review: A Gripping Documentary on Opioid Exploitation&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-american-pain-review-a-gripping-documentary-on-opioid-exploitation\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98American_Pain_Review_A_Gripping_Documentary_on_Opioid_Exploitation%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;American Pain&#8217; Review: A Gripping Documentary on Opioid Exploitation&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-american-pain-review-a-gripping-documentary-on-opioid-exploitation\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-american-pain-review-a-gripping-documentary-on-opioid-exploitation\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98American_Pain_Review_A_Gripping_Documentary_on_Opioid_Exploitation%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;American Pain&#8217; Review: A Gripping Documentary on Opioid Exploitation&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98American_Pain_Review_A_Gripping_Documentary_on_Opioid_Exploitation%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;American Pain&#8217; Review: A Gripping Documentary on Opioid Exploitation&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Though it\u2019s been consistently overshadowed by more dramatic breaking <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> stories, few issues have dealt 21st-century U.S. society such a crippling blow as the opioid crisis. There have been documentaries about afflicted communities, irresponsible pharmaceutical manufacturers and misguided or corrupt prescribing physicians, as well as fictive depictions and bestselling print expos\u00e9s like Patrick Redden Keefe\u2019s \u201cEmpire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty.\u201d But it\u2019s hard to think of a prior chronicle quite so luridly indicting as \u201cAmerican Pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A serious muckrake after the relatively softball exercise of 2018 crowdpleaser \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> Fair\u201d (which was co-directed with Cristina Costantini), Darren Foster\u2019s second feature draws on his long-term opioid-related TV reporting to paint a particularly horrible kind of all-American success story. Its principal figures are twin South Florida brothers whose ruthless exploitation of weak regulation and an addiction epidemic made them, for a time, the nation\u2019s single largest \u201cpill mill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Complete with s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>per girlfriends, tank-sized SUVs and other juvenile-fantasy accoutrements of \u201cliving large\u201d on other people\u2019s suffering, this is a garishly compelling tale whose protagonists remain \u2014 even after lengthy prison sentences \u2014 stubbornly unapologetic. Initially slated for CNN broadcast and HBO Max streaming release, this Tribeca premiere is reportedly now weighing theatrical release options prior to home-viewing exposure.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief teaser of Federal-raid freakouts to come, and a range of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>alled soundbites (\u201cThe George brothers didn\u2019t start the opioid crisis, but they sure as hell poured gasoline on the fire\u201d), we commence a biographical introduction to the central duo \u2014 partly narrated by one of them, via telephone from behind bars. Christopher and Jeffrey George shared their mother\u2019s womb, no doubt already commencing their inseparable, competitive and volatile relationship before birth in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Raised in upscale West Palm Beach enclave Wellington, they lacked for nothing, yet began building rap sheets for offenses both petty and alarming well before legal maturity. As noted by their father, a building industry magnate, strings were pulled so they usually got off with a community-service wrist slap. Once their mother remarried, a stepfather (among the more sympathetic figures here) \u201cnoticed early on that they were a little\u2026 difficult.\u201d Especially after that time they started a forest fire.<\/p>\n<p>Shifting shared athleticism towards bodybuilding, the two turned that pursuit into business with their first official partnership, a \u201chormone replacement clinic\u201d front for illegal steroid sales. But they were told \u201cthe real money\u201d was in pain pills. So taking advantage of Florida\u2019s amazingly lax licensing at the time, they swiftly set themselves up as proprietors of an ostensible pain clinic that had a line around the block on its very first day. Doctors were easily found to rubber-stamp prescriptions for those \u201cin pain,\u201d equipment bought (like an MRI scanner) to make the diagnoses look legit enough. Save for suspected undercover cops, no one was turned away, and the state\u2019s lack of any monitoring database meant that little stopped patrons (whether addicts, dealers or both) from stockpiling oxycodone and other drugs for resale. People were soon driving across multiple state lines to load up, then resell at inflated cost back home \u2014 if they didn\u2019t nod off and die in a wreck on the way back, a common occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>As operations expanded and profits grew astronomical, naturally the Georges\u2019 establishments began to attract some unwanted attention \u2014 from various governmental investigators, jealous copycat entrepreneurs, snooping journalists and unhappy strip-mall neighbors. Among those last was a tech store owner who happily filled the brothers\u2019 computer and security-camera needs. Little did they realize John Friskey had lost a son to opioids, which fueled his supplying law enforcement with damning evidence via the equipment he\u2019d installed.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s just one of several neat plot twists in a saga that would easily lend itself to mini<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>-scaled dramatization. The spyware resulted in considerable damning audio and footage, duly incorporated here. Yet until it all came tumbling down, the Georges and their team seemed to believe themselves invincible. Their hubris and greed were bottomless, their morality nonexistent. Refusing to accept any responsibility whatsoever, they let their mother (herself relatively innocent, or at least naive) go to prison, though that didn\u2019t stop them heading there as well. After a decade\u2019s incarceration, the one brother now freed shrugs off all harm done \u2014 about 3000 deaths occurred among their in-person clinic customers alone \u2014 as the addicts\u2019 own fault. Indeed, it\u2019s notable that the sole interviewees who seem chastened are those from the least privileged backgrounds, one of them admitting, \u201cI was a scumbag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The siblings themselves are mostly seen and heard in archival material, the story in which they \u201cstar\u201d largely told by a colorful cast of skeevy co-conspirators, bodacious ex-girlfriends, dogged reporters, FBI and DEA personnel, one entire family of long-distance Kentucky drug runners, and so on. With so much jaw-dropping information revealed on the business side of things, \u201cAmerican Pain\u201d pays comparatively little attention to numerous intriguing sideshow elements, such as Chris apparently being an \u201cavowed white supremacist.\u201d We don\u2019t learn much at all about Jeff, who left most toil to his workaholic bro while he enjoyed a glam lifestyle, for which one buddy dubbed him \u201cthe Paris Hilton of West Palm Beach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Landing between the terrain of \u201cThe Wolf of Wall Street\u201d and \u201cPain &amp; Gain,\u201d this grotesque account of filthy lucre built on ruined lives sprinkles believe-it-or-not details (garbage bags o\u2019 cash, doctors packing guns under lab coats, a personal helicopter purchase) amidst a headlong editorial pace. Larger-than-life yet shallower than nail polish, most of the main figures here remain detestable: By the time one ex-squeeze admits she lied to Chris George just to vindictively feed his paranoia, we can only think, \u201cOf course she did. Who else would he attract?\u201d Wisely, then, the film opts for an overall tone of incredulous comedy, underlined by a one-finger-at-the-Casio-keyboard score from Jeff Morrow that frames this as a tale about bratty children in hulking adult bodies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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