Frontline. Opioids, Inc. / reported by Nick Verbitsky, Hannah Kuchler, Annie Wong, Rebecca Blandón ; produced by Annie Wong, Nick Verbitsky ; written & directed by Thomas Jennings ; a Frontline production with 2over10 Media ; in association with the Financial Times ; a production of WGBH/Boston.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Jennings, Tom, 1961- director, screenwriter.

Verbitsky, Nick, producer, speaker.

Wong, Annie (Television producer), producer, speaker.

Lyman, Will, 1948- narrator.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), film distributor.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insys Therapeutics, Inc.

Opioid abuse--United States.

Opioid abuse.

Fentanyl--Overdose--United States.

Fentanyl.

Pharmaceutical industry--Corrupt practices--United States.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (54 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Arlington, VA : Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

The story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud; this is an investigation of how InsysTherapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller 50 times stronger than heroin.

Participant:

Narrator: Will Lyman.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed October 13, 2020).

Contains:

In series: Frontline (Television program)

OCLC:

1204118234

Publisher Number:

ASP5075374/marc