The Pharmacist

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.

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.

Purdue pharmacy ruined the lives of countless Americans pushing heroin as a prescription drug.

This documentary effectively shows the local and national effects going thru the lens of 'the pharmacist'. The execs at Purdue and the FDA have blood on their hands.

It's truly disgusting what greed and no moral compass can drive people to do. Truly sickening. I hope kids can watch this and avoid opiates, because once you start it's really hard to stop.

I really liked the main character in this series, the narrator of this story. Dan Schneider. Well... It's actually not one, but two connected stories: one of his sons death and one of the sequential mission work that followed. Such a unique and special guy and an overall interesting and fascinating story.

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.