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Four Good Days (2020)
Harmful misinformation about opioid use and treatment
This film portrays a character who does not receive effective treatment for her opioid use but that is not clear to the casual viewer at all. Instead of portraying a Doctor who appropriately recommends multiple medications to treat this individual's addiction (i.e., offering methadone and buprenorphine as options too), we see a provider offer only one medication and force the patient to go through a painful and unnecessary withdrawal that could have been avoided with other medicines. The general public will take away the untrue message that opioid addiction treatment is physically painful and ineffective. The make up and teeth worn by Kunis also perpetuate harmful stigma toward people who use drugs. People who are addicted to opioids can and do look all kinds of ways, including like Kunis when she's not in this ridiculous make up. In the future Hollywood should actually include experts in addiction medicine and people who use drugs as expert consultants to avoid such an embarrassing film.