Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Dr. Feelgood : dealer or healer? / Bungalow Pictures presents in association with Diamond Docs ; produced by Sara Goldblatt p.g.a., Eve Marson, p.g.a. ; written by David Boodell, Sara Goldblatt, Mark Monroe, Eve Marson ; directed by Eve Marson.

Publisher, Date:

[El Segundo, California] : Gravitas Ventures, [2016]

Description:

1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Examines the case of Dr. William Hurwitz, a pain specialist sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for drug trafficking as a result of prescribing highly addicting opioid painkillers, such as oxycontin. Raises questions into setting limits on the prescribing of opioids and whether or not "overprescription" should be treated as a criminal offense.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated by the MPAA.

Subjects:

Hurwitz, Willliam E.

Medication abuse.

Opioid abuse.

Prescription writing -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Case studies.

Drug traffic.

Analgesics.

Genre:

Feature films.

Nonfiction films.