Growing up I was always calmed from my nightmares by the reminder that it isn’t some creature with eight legs or vampire teeth that should scare me, but rather the one that walked on two legs and looked like me that should scare me, and Dopesick is proof of that fact. Like the inevitable gut rise on a roller coaster, Dopesick tells a story we all know but in a way that prevents us from ignoring the terrifying reality of its truth.