Prescrição Fatal

This is an awesome documentary about a father who pursues the killer of his son and ends up finding a larger calling. Intelligent and meticulous...one man CAN make a difference.

A story of how one man driven by at first grief and later guilt did three incredible things: 1. The solving of a murder that led to exposing the negligence of the New Orleans police department.

2. The 'pill mill' scandal by doctors and corruption of police who protected one particular doctor.

3. A scandal by a billion $ pharmaceutical that affected the whole of the United States

This is the incredible story of Dan Schneider, brilliantly told by Netflix and one well worth watching.

Highly recommended.

It took a few "false starts"- 2 years worth - for me to finally ease into this series. I admit that Dan is the type of person who makes me ill at ease: Loud and pushy.

Plus - If I ever found out that my pharmacist recorded me - well, use your imagination.

That said! I admire what he did. He saw a catastrophic wrong being done to his people and patients and he decided he was the one to fix the problem. That problem wasn't about to go away on her own. I can't comment on her. My mother said that if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. I will say she did NOT reap what she sowed. (Dan liked bible stuff.) I would have preferred some serious Old Testament for her.

We obviously need more people like him - especially in the archaic slow moving government agencies. When he sees an obstruction, he rams right through it. And it still took years.

This NOT an easy watch - at all. But you'll learn a lot. And I think you'll come to like Dan. His family is very easy to like.

Thank goodness there are still good people in the world. Thanks, Dan.

Having come to terms with the killing of his son, Pharmacist Dan spots dangerous irregularities in the prescribing of wonder drug oxycontin, he begins his quest to tackle a Doctor, who's handing them out like sweets.

This is without a doubt, one of the best documentaries I've seen on Netflix, it's an insightful, no holds barred, emotional series, which explains one man's battles for the truth, for justice, he dares to take on the big boys.

Very well made, edited and put together, it links up well, and each episode is different, it progresses well, each episode providing a base for the following one.

Dan, I salute you, , definitely something of a crusader, you can't help but wonder how many more would have died, had he not pushed and pushed.

I'd heard of oxycontin, but I had no idea just how bad things had gotten with it, staggering the people involved, the corruption etc.

I applaud Netflix for making this, it's not often you hear of any criticism of the big pharmaceuticals, this series doesn't pull its punches.

Staggering, 9/10.

It's pretty rare to see the story of a person who has actually acted to make a difference and change the world. Dan's story is just that. At times it's easy to dismiss him as a bit of a wacko who's struggling to keep going after a huge loss and gets carried away, but I think that might be because it's hard to imagine caring so deeply about something that you're willing to go to extreme lengths to make it happen. Absolutely heartbreaking, but also incredibly beautiful.