The Hard Sell - Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup

SOON TO BE THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PAIN HUSTLERS STARRING EMILY BLUNT AND CHRIS EVANS ''A pacey crime caper set against the backdrop of the opioid crisis . . . When I tell you that reading The Hard Sell is like watching a Scorsese film, you will assume I am exaggerating. Pick it up and tell me I''m wrong.'' - Patrick Radden Keefe, The New York Times In the early 2000s, John Kapoor had already amassed a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he founded Insys Therapeutics. A boom time for painkillers, he had developed a novel formulation of fentanyl, the most potent opioid on the market. Kapoor, a brilliant scientist with relentless business instincts, was eager to make the most of his innovation. But there was a problem: the drug was a niche product, approved only for cancer patients in dire condition. So he recruited an avaricious team, who employed a variety of deceptive techniques, such as zeroing in on suspect doctors, falsifying patient records and deceiving insurance companies. Insys became a Wall Street sensation. That is, until insiders reached their breaking point and blew the whistle, sparking a sprawling investigation in the government''s fight to hold the drug industry accountable in the spread of addictive opioids. With colourful characters and true suspense, The Hard Sell lays bare the pharma playbook. Evan Hughes offers a bracing look not just at Insys, but at how opioids are sold at the point they first enter the national bloodstream - in the doctor''s office.

Product details

• Authors: Evan Hughes, Hughes Evan
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.06.2023
• EAN: 9781035017898
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3501789-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, 21st Century, LAW / Drugs & the Law, Reportage & collected journalism, Corporate crime, Corporate crime / white-collar crime, United States of America, USA, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Corruption in society, Pharmaceutical industries, Chemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, Pharmaceutical law, fentanyl; addiction; death; true crime