Shows Like Dopesick

If you liked Dopesick (2021), a crime and drama series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Snowfall (2017)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and crime
Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a…
2
The Sinner (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama
In a small New York town, a haunted detective hunts for answers about perplexing crimes while wrestling with his own demons.
3
The Knick (2014)
★ 7.8/10Also drama
Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and its staff, notably Dr. John Thackery, the hospital's brilliant chief surgeon who pushes medicine's boundaries, pioneering new…
4
Scarpetta (2026)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime
Renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to her position as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner, where she investigates a haunting murder with eerie reminders from her first big case decades ago. In 1998…
5
Narcos (2015)
★ 8.1/10Also crime and drama
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
6
Painkiller (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and crime
The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.
7
Long Bright River (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and crime
A police officer patrols a Philadelphia neighborhood hard-hit by the opioid crisis. When a series of murders begins in the neighborhood, Mickey realizes that her personal history might be related to the case.
8
Breaking Bad (2008)
★ 9/10Also drama and crime
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure…
9
Patrick Melrose (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
10
Ballard (2025)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and crime
Detective Renée Ballard plunges into a web of murder and corruption as she hunts a ruthless serial killer and uncovers a sinister police conspiracy that threatens everything she stands for. With her own demons nipping…
11
Euphoria (2019)
★ 8.3/10Also drama
A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.
12
The Corner (2000)
★ 7.8/10Also crime and drama
The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a…
13
M.I.A. (2026)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and crime
Restless in the Florida Keys, Etta Tiger Jonze dreams of a life in Miami's glittering, sub-tropical kingdom. When her family's drug-running business shatters in tragedy, however, Etta embarks on a dangerous journey…
14
The Alienist (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male…
15
The Wire (2002)
★ 8.6/10Also crime and drama
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining…
16
Shantaram (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama
Escaped convict Lin Ford flees to the teeming streets of 1980s Bombay, looking to disappear. Working as a medic for the city's poor and neglected, Lin finds unexpected love, connection, and courage on the long road to…
17
Hotel Cocaine (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also crime
The story of Roman Compte, a Cuban exile and general manager of The Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of late '70s and early '80s. The Mutiny Hotel was Casablanca on cocaine.
18
Sharp Objects (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also crime and drama
Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
19
Cape Fear (2026)
★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama
When convicted murderer Max Cady is released from prison, he begins infiltrating the family of the married attorneys who helped put him behind bars.
20
Narcos: Mexico (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and crime
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.