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Understanding the Opioid Epidemic traces the causes behind the unprecedented growth in the use of prescription opioids and the devastating impact these drugs are having in virtually every part of America.
The story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud, this is an investigation of how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller 50 times stronger than heroin.
A report on corrupt sales tactics used to encourage doctors to prescribe opioids. Law enforcement is punishing many pharmaceutical executives and doctors for engaging in bribery and other unethical tactics as incentives for prescribing the drugs. Includes interviews with Greg Tremaglio, senior special agent of the undercover arm of the FDA’s DC Office of Criminal Investigations; Alec Burlakoff, former Vice President of Sales of Insys Therapeutics; and Fred Wyshak, Nathaniel Yeager, and David Lazarus, federal prosecutors in Boston.
Soaring addiction and overdose death rates have spurred calls for a comprehensive prevention and treatment response. Yet too few people are getting care that works. What would a better system look like, and what are insurers willing to pay for?
The Opioid Epidemic is the worst man-made epidemic in the history of our nation. More people die each year from an opioid overdose than in automobile accidents. The statistics are staggering. This episode traces how an aggressive pharmaceutical mass marketing campaign for the new drug OxyContin mislead doctors and the public into our current crisis of death and addiction. The FDA and healthcare organizations became co-conspirators in endorsing long term use of opioids despite no scientific proof they were non-addictive.
