They went further, they had more to time and they use actors and they could have some drama involved that we couldnt get in a regular documentary. I am from St. John Parish. It was a path that ultimately resulted in him taking on Big Pharma at the onset of America's opioid crisis. And in one of the scenes where I really look kind of crazy, and I guess I was kind of crazy, a crazy thing happened that still isnt explained to this day. DuringThe Pharmacist, years of audio recordings complement Dan's on-screen commentaries about his experiences. We were not a pill mill pharmacy. How did Schneider first decide to challenge pharmaceutical companies? She weighs 100 pounds. And they showed it on TV. These are just kids. Several government and school officials are members of the coalition board, including narcotic agents, pastors and educators. There is something to do. She was the top of her class. Audiences are hailing The Pharmacists Dan Schneider, but where is he now? Here are the biggest reveals from Netflix's docuseries about the opioid epidemic. It had to be hundreds. As the police embark on a long and complicated investigation, Schneider starts to notice how many prescriptions for opioids are being abused in his town, which eventually leads to a takedown of "big pharma.". He went to school but delivered pizza at night. You are not alone. So, that was one distant dream that eventually came true. And they gave me a date. I agree with it. Theres no screenplay or even a book to go off of but what is coming together is a new podcast produced by the Ranch Studio. While I was investigating, me and the FBI were investigating the same thing. I dont have quite all the answers, but the answer is not opening up the prescription opioids again. They did an article on The Pharmacist and what we accomplished. After Hurrican Katrina destroyed his family home, he moved over to the North Shore suburb in Mandeville, creating a new life. "The embarrassment is just going to keep growing over this," Laura Harth, the campaign director at Safeguard Defenders, told Newsweek. Lacking answers from the police, small-town pharmacist Dan Schneider embarked on a persistent pursuit to find and bring his son's killer to justice. It released in February 2020 on Netflix, the series relates the efforts of Dan Schneider (activist), a small-town pharmacist in Poydras, Louisiana, to identify his son's killer and how this led to his gathering evidence against a prolific "pill mill" doctor in New Orleans. Now of course, some of them its combination of making money and saying, Well, its not in my business. So it was not out of the realm of possibilities. And worse than that, we saw New Orleans police officers on her porch, watching all this. You called everybody in the neighborhood where he was shot. I started writing articles and talking to, because we have an epidemic and back then there was only 16,000 overdose deaths. Or maybe they just say honestly what happened, because so many people still keep it a secret. Almost overnight, Schneider largely disappeared from public view and returned home with the $7 million . And that has always been a motivation to me. Schneiders attic still holds a huge stack of boxes filled with his investigative work from the 2 year-period in his life that makes most of The Pharmacist. But it's still an everyday struggle for me because I ask this to myself often: 'How do I continue to move forward when I know I did wrong?' Speak up. Dr. Cleggett because of your efforts lost her medical license and has pleaded guilty to criminal charges. Another thing that motivated me, same thing happened in January of 2001 where I saw the cross and I decided, and I went and videotaped the office, Time Magazine had an article about Oxycontin, the killer. This woman has got my little community to be in Time Magazine, which normally wed be thrilled to be in Time Magazine, okay? But his dogged investigation including cold-calling residents of the Lower 9th Ward eventually ledhim to another witness, Shane Madding, who lived across the street from the site of the shooting and remembered everything from the night of Danny's death. And so I had to say, Well, why did he go there? Well, he went there because he was less likely to get caught. And because I had promised God, because it was in my face. How much were you seeing and why did it suddenly strike you? Eventually, it was uncovered she was also selling to a group of people who then sold OxyContin throughout Mississippi. After losing his son Danny Jr. to a substance-related shooting, Louisiana pharmacist Dan Schneider was determined to hold the powerful figures behind the nations opioid epidemic accountable. Its not that you have that many more, although you create, youre not even creating addicts when they die with one pill. And I still do it because Im not only trying to invigorate them to do some action, but to get them to maybe spread the word to somebody else. As for work, he is semi-retired at the moment but does occasionally take up duties at Bradleys, which features in the documentary. Drugs have the frightening power to change how people act and think, with heartbreaking consequences. But the case is the case.". Its about the other million people out there that have lost kids that maybe didnt have the strength or the fortitude or the knowledge or job or embarrassed or are so crumbled by grief that they cant stand up. And if you had a recorder in every one of those mothers house when they heard that their child died, you would have the same kind of cry. Im so sorry and I cant even imagine. It wasnt until you called the local TV station and they did a story and put images on the local news, showing people at 3:00 a.m. lined up the outside Dr. Cleggetts office that people started to do something. In the series' first episode, we see Schneider eventually take his son's murder investigation into his own hands, fed up with the slow-pace of a police investigation without any credible leads. Get breaking news from your neighborhood delivered directly to you by downloading the new FREE WWL-TV News app now in the IOS App Store or Google Play. [1][2] Episodes[edit] Reception[edit] The story is so captivating that David Permut, the producer behind Hacksaw Ridge, has approached Schneider about making a movie. Dan Schneider opens up In a 2017 interview - according to Heavy - he admitted that he thought negatively of a similar case of three young men being killed in a drug deal prior to the events. standing outside her office, coming in and out, selling pills in the parking lot. The first episode of the documentary also explores the crack epidemic and New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward as an epicenter of the drug crisis in the region splicedwith family videos of the Schneider family at the time. They said, In 60 days were going to have this thing closed. Interviewees in the documentary who lived in the Lower 9th Ward recalled how they ended up helping Schneider with his personal investigation. In the documentary, Cleggett herself explains that she eventually filed for bankruptcy in 2004 after facing blowback. Even with shutting the doctor down and some of my other investigations. Today, Hall is out of prison and is interviewed by the documentariansextensively in the first and second episodes. In 2009 she pled guilty to illegally dispensing controlled substances, a crime that carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison and $1 million in fines. The latest Netflix docuseries, The Pharmacist, begins with a tragic 1999 murder that sparks a father's search for justice and clarity. I hate to say it. But they, she also had body guards you might say. Thats not the case. The critically acclaimed Netflix docuseries The Pharmacist recounts Dans rigorous quest to find answers about his sons death, and his mission to stop the overprescribing of opioids taking place in his community. The letters have reinvigorated this 70-year-old guy to try and make a difference, said Schneider. So, my question to you is, what would you say to people who all too often stand on the sidelines? Heres everything you need to know. I am trying to build this large registry so when I meet with these politicians, and theyll listen to me now ok, I want to be able to say look this isnt just about me and losing my son and you showing me sympathy and you showing me attention its about the million people behind me that have lost kids, said Schneider. ", The Pharmacist ends its murder mystery by revealing that Hall was eventually released after serving a 13-year sentence, at the age of 29. The family hadn't. And I dont know whether I should do this or not. We did start a protection. They talked for two hours about how Schneider found his son's killer and took on the pill . You work as a pharmacist, hence the name of the documentary, The Pharmacist. Why? Theyre all gangsters, just like what you say with the whales. In 1999, Danny Schneider, Jr. was murdered in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward during a drug deal gone wrong. Otherwise we wouldnt be talking today. 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Well, when my son was 22, so I just knew, its a shame to say it, but my brain was so enlightened, I believe at that time that I kind of said, This isnt going to end well. And not just for those individuals, I could almost foresee the opioid epidemic. Daniel Senior and his wife,. She said, Please play it. I'd recommend listening to this episode with Dan Schneider first as it'll help you get a sense of the story told in The Pharmacist documentary before we get a behind the scenes take from Julia and Jenner in the next episode. Sure enough, a young girl, 100 pounds, walks into my office or into my pharmacy with ridiculously high powered opioids, way out of line in dosage, 80 milligram Oxycontin. And Ill tell you why they werent happy about it. Dan Schneider, welcome to Heart of the Matter. But at the time I kind of wrote them all. The opioid epidemic continues to evolve. We woke her up and my daughter up in the back seat of the car, we didnt tell him anything, said, Look out of the windshield. How much you think she might have made any given night? And he was the killer," Schneider recounts in the docu-series. Blown away by your passion, blown away by your investigatory skills and the story that you tell in that. And she had different tiers. When a customer named Sheri Shernecker passed away, and was later buried not far fromDan's son, the pharmacist began investigating Dr. Cleggett, who was apparently seeing around 76 patients per day, according to the DEA. Dan and Annie moved east to St. Bernard Parish during the 1980s era of, Shane received frequent death threats as the trial approached and moved to, The DEA's investigation uncovers that Dr. Cleggett prescribed over 180,000 pills in just 10 pharmacies. 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Now, I had a little conflict with my boss. If you ripped through Netflix's Don't F*** With Cats and found yourself searching for another intense (and disturbing) docuseries to watch, you'll be happy to hear that the streaming service is premiering a slate of .css-1me6ynq{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:#125C68;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#125C68;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-1me6ynq:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:#595959;}binge-worthy documentaries this year. I tried to have some compassion, but at the time it eventually got to be too that they not only didnt really work on solving the case, they tried to prevent me from solving the case. She no longer is writing these prescriptions. When I try to tell her that God wants me to go on this mission to investigate, she aint going to believe this. Fortunately, it was still there. I had an appointment to meet an FBI agent at FBI headquarters to give them some additional information. In a big twist,Dan learns that theoriginal murder witness, Jeffery Hall, turned out to be the killer. So I called her, two or three days it took for her to get back with me. But the witness, the witness who was really a hero. The Pharmacist initiallyexplores the details of adrug-related murder involving the subject'sson, Danny Schneider, Jr.