Ain't no party like an Insys party
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Insys was the startup unicorn of the opioid crisis, and boy did they know how to party.
Becca & Adam meet Insys CEO John Kapoor and his rowdy band of crooked pharmaceutical reps as they slither their way through doctors offices across the country, pushing their marquee product: Fentanyl! The shady sales reps unleashed the powerful opioid on unsuspecting patients and bribed their doctors to increase dosages through an illegal kickback scheme. Eventually their shameless conspiracies and criminal shakedowns lead to a public meltdown and federal racketeering charges, but not before Kapoor could be crowned Forbes coverboy!
CW: Drug abuse
Links:
The Pain Hustlers - NYT Expose
An Opioid Spray Showered Billionaire John Kapoor In Riches. Now He's Feeling The Pain
A potent painkiller, and the drug maker's marketing, are faulted in a woman's death
Pharmaceutical Executive John Kapoor Sentenced To 66 Months In Prison In Opioid Trial
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| 0:00.0 | That was Sunrise on the main stage. |
| 0:03.7 | Give it up for Sunrise, everybody. |
| 0:07.0 | Sunrise, Sunrise. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey, hey, Alec Berlakov, Vice President of Sales, Incest Therapeutics. |
| 0:10.8 | Hey, I love what you did up there. |
| 0:12.2 | Really great work. |
| 0:13.0 | Listen, listen, I want you to work for me. |
| 0:15.1 | Do you ever do sales? |
| 0:16.3 | You know what doesn't matter? |
| 0:17.2 | You know how to do sales? |
| 0:18.1 | I'm sold on you. |
| 0:19.1 | Honey, I'm a dancer. I don't know anything about pharmaceuticals. I don't sell pills. |
| 0:23.3 | You're not selling pills. You're selling life. This place I work at makes this product. It's a game changer. Stopp's pain like that. I mean, come on. Nobody wants to be in pain. No wants to see anyone in pain. A quiz breaks under the tongue |
| 0:33.5 | And they'd that |
| 0:34.6 | And five months later |
| 0:35.7 | You're back at it, baby |
| 0:37.0 | What do you say? |
| 0:38.0 | Come on, sunrise, come with me |
| 0:39.2 | I know you'd be great |
| 0:39.9 | We need you |
| 0:40.4 | Our patience need you tongue and they that and five months later you're back at it baby what do you say come on |
| 0:38.3 | sunrise come with me i know you'd be great we need you our patients need you and just like that |
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