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The Pharmacist & the Opioid Epidemic

Alexandra Calado
9 min readFeb 9, 2020

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I’ve recently watched a documentary on Netflix called: The pharmacist.

Pharmacist — Photo by Kendal on Unsplash

What can I say about this documentary where a pharmacist carried out his profession much more than expected but for the best reasons?

Dan Scheinder, the hero who with an open heart with all his humanism tells the story of his life using something very specific and unique: hundreds of recordings that will accompany the entire documentary between emotional stories, conversations, cries, prayers.

Tapes — Photo by Muhammad Haikal Sjukri on Unsplash

The truth is that the tragedy of his life changed him which resulted in an impressive event of events. In this documentary between the murder of his son Danny, who supposedly proved to be a normal teenage kid but who found himself addicted to crack (cocaine in the form of crystals), was murdered in a place where the family never thought to find him, the truth was hard and raw and thanks to a private investigation with a lot of persistence, hours on end, phone calls, interviews, failed manhunt, failed witnesses and a profession in the health sector put this man face to face to a shocking discovery (at the time in…

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Alexandra Calado
Alexandra Calado

Written by Alexandra Calado

Apaixonada pela vida, pelo mundo, fotografia e poesia. In love with life, world, photography and poetry. Author of Jardim da Minha Alma e Rota das Andorinhas.

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