pickUgh. This book is disgusting; not the writing. The writing is great and entertaining. But what these people did? Despicable. It reads like you‘re watching a movie, so very entertaining.
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The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup | 
pickUgh. This book is disgusting; not the writing. The writing is great and entertaining. But what these people did? Despicable. It reads like you‘re watching a movie, so very entertaining.
pickSad story, repeated by so many companies that were more concerned about profits than the people impacted by their actions.
#LetterH recs:
The Hard Sell by Evan Hughes
How Long 'til Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin
#AlphabetGame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
so-soI just thought this was okay. Part of my problem was how much I loved Empire of Pain and found myself comparing the two. I wanted more personal stories or something.
pickOpioid crisis nonfiction is definitely in my wheelhouse, and I flew through this one, thanks to a well-written narrative and lots of interesting detail. I hadn‘t realized that I already knew a bunch about this company‘s story (must have been from a doc or podcast?). Some despicably memorable characters, for sure. All that being said, mostly I found this book exhausting and sad. Thinking about how our systems perpetuate ⬇️
pickYou‘ve probably read the story of OxyContin, but have you heard of Subsys? This is the shocking story of the rise of John Kapoor and Insys, a small pharmaceutical company that rocked the world of chronic pain and fentanyl in the early 2010s. They took Perdue‘s playbook into hyperdrive and payed doctors to prescribe and had an in-house department that committed insurance fraud. A must-read if you enjoyed Empire of Pain or Bad Blood! 5⭐️
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Three books on this #NewReleaseTuesday!
I have been SO EXCITED for The Hard Sell even since @sebrittainclark put it on my #ReadersRadar last year. Tagged ⬆️ It‘s about Insys, which is reminiscent of Perdue Pharma.
Joan Is Okay: I enjoyed her debut Chemistry so I thought I‘d give this a listen. Tagged ⬇️
The other library book I don‘t know much about. We shall see. Tagged ⬇️
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I could not put The Hard Sell down once I started reading. It documents how the company Insys inappropriately marketed their fentanyl based pain killer, Subsys, to doctors (including bribes and kickbacks) and encouraged those doctors to prescribe Subsys inappropriately to patients. I think anyone who found Bad Blood fascinating, will be similarly interested and horrified by The Hard Sell as well.
