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Insys Therapeutics, Inc.
Opioid abuse -- United States.
Fentanyl -- Overdose -- United States.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
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Insys Therapeutics, Inc.
Opioid abuse -- United States.
Fentanyl -- Overdose -- United States.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
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Opioids, Inc. [videorecording (DVD)].
PBS Distribution, 2020.
Call #:
DVD 362.293 O61 Doc
Subjects
Insys Therapeutics, Inc.
Opioid abuse -- United States.
Fentanyl -- Overdose -- United States.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
Series
PBS DVD video.
ISBN:
9781531712501
1531712509
Alternate title:
Frontline. Opioids, Inc. [videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)].
Description:
1 videodisc (approx. 60 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Originally broadcast as an episode of the documentary TV series "Frontline" on PBS April 21, 2020.
Home use only.
English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Production:
A Frontline production with 2over10 Media in association with the Financial Times ; written and directed by Thomas
Jennings
.
Summary:
"Pushing opioids. Bribing doctors. Making millions. In Opioids, Inc., FRONTLINE and the Financial Times investigate how the drug company Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller up to 100 times stronger than morphine -- and how some Wall Street investors looked the other way even as questions about the company’s practices mounted. A year in the making, Opioids, Inc. tells the inside story of how Insys profited from Subsys, a fast-acting fentanyl-based spray that’s been linked to hundreds of deaths. Tactics included targeting high-prescribing doctors and nurse practitioners known within the company as “whales,” misleading insurers, and holding contests for the sales team: the higher the prescription doses they got doctors to write, the larger the cash prize -- despite the dangers to patients. But as the documentary traces in unprecedented detail, the scheme fell apart: With federal prosecutors using anti-racketeering laws designed to fight organized crime, Insys became the first pharmaceutical company to have its CEOsentenced to prison timein federal courtin connection with the opioid crisis. Through the lens of one company's spectacular rise and fall, Opioids, Inc. is a powerful look at the role pharmaceutical companies have played in fueling America's epidemic of opioid addiction, how they and their stockholders have profited, and how they're being held accountable."--Container.,
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Documentary television programs.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Jennings
,
Tom
,
1961-
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