Pain Hustlers is inspired by a true story, meaning that Andy Garcia’s character in the film – Dr. Jack Neel – is loosely based on a real person.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Wells Tower, the screenwriter of Netflix's Pain Hustlers, based his script on the 2022 nonfiction book Pain Hustlers: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup by Evan Hughes, but he changed the names of the people involved, including John Kapoor, and altered the story to make it his own. Andy Garcia plays Dr.
As mentioned above, Pain Hustlers revolves around Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical group that was at the center of an opioid scandal in late 2016. The company sold Subsys, a liquid form of fentanyl that was used to treat breakthrough pain in cancer patients and found to be highly addictive.
John Kapoor Was Convicted Of A Racketeering Conspiracy In 2019 & Sentenced To 66 Months In Prison The real-life Dr. Jack Neel from Pain Hustlers, John Kapoor, founded Insys Therapeutics in 1990, and the company launched its opioid, Subsys, in 2012. However, the pharmaceutical group used illegal practices to sell the drug , and it wouldn't be much longer after its launch that the company came under fire for its unorthodox methods.
Kapoor was arrested again in October 2017 and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, RICO conspiracy, and conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Law. Almost two years later, in May 2019, Kapoor was convicted of the racketeering conspiracy. The former Insys Therapeutics CEO's sentencing hearing came in January 2020, and he was sentenced to 66 months, or five and a half years, in prison, just like Dr. Jack Neel in Pain Hustlers' ending.
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