Summary of Evan Hughes's Pain Hustlers

Download or read book Summary of Evan Hughes's Pain Hustlers written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buy now to get the main key ideas from Evan Hughes's Pain Hustlers Pain Hustlers (2023) details the rise and fall of Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company that played a significant role in the opioid crisis in the United States. Investigative journalist Evan Hughes follows John Kapoor, the biotech entrepreneur who founded Insys, and his team as they develop and market Subsys, a fentanyl spray for severe pain in critically ill patients. Despite the drug’s potential to ease suffering, the company’s aggressive and unethical marketing strategies led to its misuse, and the company’s top executives landed in prison.