Addicted to Painkillers
BBC2 (Horizon)

Wingspan Productions; Dir. Dan Murdoch; TX January 2020

Dr Michael Mosley immerses himself on the frontline of our prescription painkiller habit. In America, it is an epidemic. Now, new evidence raises concern about the UK's use of prescription opioids. Our graphics for this episode of the BBC’s flagship science strand brought visual excitement and energy at different moments to sometimes less accessible subject matter. We also found a new way to highlight and illustrate a piece of text, demonstrating visually how it had been taken out of context and used to justify the justify the use of prescription opioids.