Did Free Pens Cause the Opioid Crisis?

Did Free Pens Cause the Opioid Crisis?

Early in Dopesick, a book examining how Purdue Pharma helped addict an alarming number of Americans to opioids, Beth Macy writes about the army of drug reps who pushed the painkiller OxyContin. In its approach to sales, Macy shows, Purdue was scientific. The more likely a doctor was to prescribe, the more often the reps darkened his door.