Vice Essentials Canada
VICE Essentials: Canada is a special television presentation of VICE Canada's essential original digital documentary programming. The series delivers some of the country's most important, pressing, underexposed and captivating stories.
- 2016-2017
- 1 season
VICE Essentials: Canada is a special television presentation of VICE Canada's essential original digital documentary programming. The series delivers some of the country's most important, pressing, underexposed and captivating stories.
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Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1
Dopesick: Fentanyl's Deadly Grip
Follows the lives of people in Alberta, Canada, affected by the powerful opioid drug fentanyl. The underlying source of the fentanyl crisis in the country goes back to 2012, when the notorious prescription painkiller OxyContin was pulled from pharmacy shelves in lieu of a "safer" alternative called OxyNeo. In response to the change, counterfeit fentanyl disguised as fake OxyContin pills started popping up, proliferated, and ended up sparking a full-on crisis in the country - with Canada's west becoming a major epicentre.
Awards
- 2017 - Canadian Screen Award - Best Original Program or Series produced for Digital Media - Non-Fiction - Winner