Dr. Feelgood: Dealer or Healer?

USA, 2016, 81 min

Directed by:

Eve Marson

Screenplay:

Eve Marson, Sara Goldblatt

Cinematography:

Jeff Bierman

Composer:

Jacob Yoffee
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Dr. Feelgood is the documentary of Dr. William Hurwitz, a preeminent doctor sentenced to 25 years in prison for overprescribing painkillers. His story provides a window into the ethical dilemma of opioid prescriptions. Painkillers give doctors tremendous power to relieve pain, a primary goal of any physician, but this power begets trouble when the same drugs can lead to addiction, abuse and death. (Tallgrass Film Festival)

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