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- ISBN
- 9780525566328
- Book Title
- Pain Hustlers : Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup Originally Published As the Hard Sell
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- True Crime, Business & Economics, Medical
- Topic
- Business Ethics, Industries / Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Pharmacology, Organized Crime
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers--until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial. * THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PAIN HUSTLERS STARRING EMILY BLUNT AND CHRIS EVANS "Unfolds with the velocity and verve of a Scorsese film...A tour de force."--Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing John Kapoor had already amassed a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he founded Insys Therapeutics. It was the early 2000s, a boom time for painkillers, and he developed a novel formulation of fentanyl, the most potent opioid on the market. Kapoor, a brilliant immigrant scientist with relentless business instincts, was eager to make the most of his innovation. He gathered around him an ambitious group of young lieutenants. His head of sales--an unstable and unmanageable leader, but a genius of persuasion--built a team willing to pull every lever to close a sale, going so far as to recruit an exotic dancer ready to scrape her way up. They zeroed in on the eccentric and suspect doctors receptive to their methods. Employees at headquarters did their part by deceiving insurance companies. The drug was a niche product, approved only for cancer patients in dire condition, but the company's leadership pushed it more widely, and together they turned Insys into a Wall Street sensation. But several insiders reached their breaking point and blew the whistle. They sparked a sprawling investigation that would lead to a dramatic courtroom battle, breaking new ground in the government's fight to hold the drug industry accountable in the spread of addictive opioids. In Pain Hustlers , National Magazine Award-finalist Evan Hughes lays bare the pharma playbook. He draws on unprecedented access to insiders of the Insys saga, from top executives to foot soldiers, from the patients and staff of far-flung clinics to the Boston investigators who treated the case as a drug-trafficking conspiracy, flipping cooperators and closing in on the key players. With colorful characters and true suspense, Pain Hustlers 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.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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0525566325
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9780525566328
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Book Title
Pain Hustlers : Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup Originally Published As the Hard Sell
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Business Ethics, Industries / Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Pharmacology, Organized Crime
Publication Year
2023
Genre
True Crime, Business & Economics, Medical
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
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Reviews
"A fast-paced and maddening account.... Until I read The Hard Sell , about the outrageous behavior of an obscure drug company, I hadn't appreciated the full extent of the filth or the dark stain the opioid sector has left on the entire industry.... What's most surprising and powerful about The Hard Sell is not one company's criminality--we've grown inured to corporations behaving badly--as much as how institutionalized these practices were across the modern drug industry." -- New York Times Book Review "A feat of rigorous sleuthing and deft storytelling that unfolds with the velocity and verve of a Scorsese film. Everything about the Insys saga feels amplified to its utmost extreme--greed, ambition, criminality, hustle, intrigue, betrayals--and this is that rare story of the opioid crisis in which the bad guys face a genuine reckoning. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. A tour de force." --Patrick Radden Keefe , New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing "A richly reported, mesmerizing tale, and a devastating indictment of our broken pharmaceutical industry. Everyone should read this book." -- Sheelah Kolhatkar , staff writer at The New Yorker and New York Times bestselling author of Black Edge "Filled with odd and scintillating details, The Hard Sell plots the winding way one drug company and its associated doctors helped to beget the latest wave in our ongoing opioid crisis." -- Errol Morris , Academy Award-winning filmmaker "When you're running a pharma startup, how does the obvious wrong thing to do become the thing you do anyway? The Hard Sell, fascinating in the fashion of a slow-moving train wreck, is a study of corruption in which we see how the actions of key executives make a kind of awful sense given the ecosystem in which they operate." -- Ted Conover , National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack and The Routes of Man "Vivid...A tightly focused and insightful account...As a gripping tale of one drug firm's unscrupulous efforts to profit from pain, The Hard Sell is hard to beat." -- The Boston Globe "Excellent...Hughes has somehow produced what feels like a seamless, fly-on-the-wall account that can be devoured in one sitting." -- The Globe and Mail "A revelatory deep dive into the ignominious history of the pharmaceutical manufacturer Insys Therapeutics...Hughes does an excellent job of illuminating the inner workings of Big Pharma's malicious practices...A powerful indictment of abhorrent industry practices." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "As compelling as a true crime documentary...Hughes perfectly captures the human impact of pharmaceutical sales and corporate greed...Anyone who picks up this title will be left reflecting on how the U.S. medical system and drug companies have recklessly destroyed countless lives. A book readers will not soon forget." -- Library Journal (starred review) "A journalist pulls back the curtain on the scandals that sent the first pharmaceutical executives to prison for their role in the opioid crisis...A brisk and engaging account." -- Kirkus Reviews "Unfolds like a blockbuster film. Fans of Bad Blood by John Carreyrou will be captivated by this story of unbelievable greed and hubris. A must-read." -- Booklist (starred review), "A fast-paced and maddening account.... Until I read [ Pain Hustlers ], about the outrageous behavior of an obscure drug company, I hadn't appreciated the full extent of the filth or the dark stain the opioid sector has left on the entire industry.... What's most surprising and powerful about [ Pain Hustlers ] is not one company's criminality--we've grown inured to corporations behaving badly--as much as how institutionalized these practices were across the modern drug industry." -- New York Times Book Review "A feat of rigorous sleuthing and deft storytelling that unfolds with the velocity and verve of a Scorsese film. Everything about the Insys saga feels amplified to its utmost extreme--greed, ambition, criminality, hustle, intrigue, betrayals--and this is that rare story of the opioid crisis in which the bad guys face a genuine reckoning. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. A tour de force." --Patrick Radden Keefe , New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing "A richly reported, mesmerizing tale, and a devastating indictment of our broken pharmaceutical industry. Everyone should read this book." -- Sheelah Kolhatkar , staff writer at The New Yorker and New York Times bestselling author of Black Edge "Filled with odd and scintillating details, [ Pain Hustlers ] plots the winding way one drug company and its associated doctors helped to beget the latest wave in our ongoing opioid crisis." -- Errol Morris , Academy Award-winning filmmaker "When you're running a pharma startup, how does the obvious wrong thing to do become the thing you do anyway? [ Pain Hustlers ] , fascinating in the fashion of a slow-moving train wreck, is a study of corruption in which we see how the actions of key executives make a kind of awful sense given the ecosystem in which they operate." -- Ted Conover , National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack and The Routes of Man "Vivid...A tightly focused and insightful account...As a gripping tale of one drug firm's unscrupulous efforts to profit from pain, [ Pain Hustlers ] is hard to beat." -- The Boston Globe "Excellent...Hughes has somehow produced what feels like a seamless, fly-on-the-wall account that can be devoured in one sitting." -- The Globe and Mail "A revelatory deep dive into the ignominious history of the pharmaceutical manufacturer Insys Therapeutics...Hughes does an excellent job of illuminating the inner workings of Big Pharma's malicious practices...A powerful indictment of abhorrent industry practices." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "As compelling as a true crime documentary...Hughes perfectly captures the human impact of pharmaceutical sales and corporate greed...Anyone who picks up this title will be left reflecting on how the U.S. medical system and drug companies have recklessly destroyed countless lives. A book readers will not soon forget." -- Library Journal (starred review) "A journalist pulls back the curtain on the scandals that sent the first pharmaceutical executives to prison for their role in the opioid crisis...A brisk and engaging account." -- Kirkus Reviews "Unfolds like a blockbuster film. Fans of Bad Blood by John Carreyrou will be captivated by this story of unbelievable greed and hubris. A must-read." -- Booklist (starred review)
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