Alex Gibney finally made a documentary that is not a lazy anti-Republican witch hunt with Trump as the main bad guy? Wow! To be fair his anti-Trump documentaries are as fun as the rest it's just that they are extremely one-sided and therefore misleading. Blaming everything on one guy or one party does not really create an intellectual product. He does make documentaries about other stuff as seen here and maybe Trump and Obama made a few Democrats a bit insane for a period. This meanwhile is exactly like any other big conspiracy and giant outrage documentary coming out from USA. But this stuff actually did happen this way. So it's not yet another overblown story. Purdue and other giant companies did hire giant sale forces to visit doctors all over USA and then use any method to make them sell their anti-pain opioids. They were made for cancer patients as they were extremely potent and addictive, but doctors are allowed to prescribe them to non-cancer patients. So they for example invited doctors to speak at conferences marketing the drug paying while a handsome fee and then in return expected them to prescribe these extremely dangerous opioids for even minor pain and get patients addicted to them. They saw the addiction epidemic, but they were earning hundreds of thousands in these jobs that didn't require an education.
The great Dopesick series goes over the Purdue side of things up to the point right before they got sued by several states. The first episode here goes over this Purdue story then the second episode focuses on Dr. John Kapoor and his company, Insys. They did the same thing and also caused thousands of people to get addicted and overdose. Since then Emily Blunt and Chris Evans made a movie about this company, but it is supposedly not great and they don't use their real names even though anyone can see what role each actor plays. At any rate this episode is top notch and a new story for me. Quite an interesting one and also interesting how politicians all vote for creating lenient laws for drug companies as they are basically bribed. And the prison sentences here are jokes. Practically nothing for causing this many deaths. The episode also focuses on a smaller private drug seller. And we have plenty of interviews with DEA agents and even 2 people who sold for Insys. A former stripper was hired by a vice president of the company because he knew she was desperate and would do anything to sell and stay in the company. Plus she was attractive and could entice doctors. She even started to date the CEO. And the guy who hired her was himself a nasty piece of work. As a loser nobody ready to break the law as he was starting out as vice president as his first degree job. A desperate guy who didn't care who he hurt. It's also quite clear the lady is extremely fake at many points. She does cry at one point so I believe that. But in her other segments the interview is extremely forced and fake as she tells us all about her great suffering as a shy woman. Well, except she was the mistress of the CEO and main cog in the company and knew what they were selling. Still, she cries when she talks about her prison sentence so maybe she won't repeat this?
The great Dopesick series goes over the Purdue side of things up to the point right before they got sued by several states. The first episode here goes over this Purdue story then the second episode focuses on Dr. John Kapoor and his company, Insys. They did the same thing and also caused thousands of people to get addicted and overdose. Since then Emily Blunt and Chris Evans made a movie about this company, but it is supposedly not great and they don't use their real names even though anyone can see what role each actor plays. At any rate this episode is top notch and a new story for me. Quite an interesting one and also interesting how politicians all vote for creating lenient laws for drug companies as they are basically bribed. And the prison sentences here are jokes. Practically nothing for causing this many deaths. The episode also focuses on a smaller private drug seller. And we have plenty of interviews with DEA agents and even 2 people who sold for Insys. A former stripper was hired by a vice president of the company because he knew she was desperate and would do anything to sell and stay in the company. Plus she was attractive and could entice doctors. She even started to date the CEO. And the guy who hired her was himself a nasty piece of work. As a loser nobody ready to break the law as he was starting out as vice president as his first degree job. A desperate guy who didn't care who he hurt. It's also quite clear the lady is extremely fake at many points. She does cry at one point so I believe that. But in her other segments the interview is extremely forced and fake as she tells us all about her great suffering as a shy woman. Well, except she was the mistress of the CEO and main cog in the company and knew what they were selling. Still, she cries when she talks about her prison sentence so maybe she won't repeat this?