stranger things season 1 episode 6 recap

Finnix collects bottles from his patients to feed his addiction. Samuel Finnix is addicted to Oxycontin after getting a prescription from the hospital when he was in a car accident. Perhaps the most shocking and heartbreaking discovery of the episode is finding out that Dr. Pauline questions this expert’s philosophy and believes that he’s a fraud that knows the dangers of Oxycontin. The company decides to bring in an expert that believes that addiction isn’t real and that patients addicted to Oxycontin have a “pseudo-addiction,” and that the best course of action is to increase the dosage. However, Raymond Slacker feels that this was the wrong decision. As a result, Richard decides that it’s best to add a less than 1% addiction rate on the medication label. Meanwhile, Purdue Pharma is dealing with substantial claims that Oxycontin leads to addiction. While the doctor examines, he insinuates that if she doesn’t have the money to pay for the prescription, they could “work something out.” Addiction Is A Myth Betsy takes a trip to Eureka Springs with her drug dealer friend, who convinces her to go see this doctor in Florida to get another prescription. Grace, her ex-girlfriend, comes backs to town and tells her all about her time at Eureka Springs. This is far from the life that she had envisioned for herself. She also sells Oxycontin on the side to help her get by. After the accident in the coal mines, she went on to work at a gas station in Finch Creek, Virginia. Life Changeīetsy’s life has changed dramatically over the last year. The show doesn’t follow up with Ryder, but we can assume that he has overdosed. One of the teen’s Ryder, passes out while doing a line, and his friends put him in the car and drive him home, where they leave him on the ground in front of his house. The opening scene is quite heartbreaking because it shows a group of teens hanging out at a bonfire, cutting up Oxycontin and snorting lines of the drug. OverdoseĮpisode 4 of Dopesick takes place a year later, in 1997. Sadly, they are forced to make a choice between their quality of life and morality. In Dopesick Episode 3, the agents at the forefront of the war against Purdue Pharma and their pain medication are all in dire health situations that require the use of the very pain medication they are against.

Stranger things season 1 episode 6 recap