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A report on corrupt sales tactics used to encourage doctors to prescribe opioids. Law enforcement is punishing many pharmaceutical executives and doctors for engaging in bribery and other unethical tactics as incentives for prescribing the drugs. Includes interviews with Greg Tremaglio, senior speci...

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Other Authors: Whitaker, Bill, 1951- (Interviewer), Hornblower, Sam (Producer)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York, NY : Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2020.
Series:60 Minutes
Subjects:
Cephalon, Inc. > Corrupt practices.
Opioids > Law and legislation > United States.
Pharmaceutical industry > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Pharmaceutical industry > Corrupt practices > United States.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Aspect moral > États-Unis.
interviews.
Interviews.
Television news programs.
Téléjournaux.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:A report on corrupt sales tactics used to encourage doctors to prescribe opioids. Law enforcement is punishing many pharmaceutical executives and doctors for engaging in bribery and other unethical tactics as incentives for prescribing the drugs. Includes interviews with Greg Tremaglio, senior special agent of the undercover arm of the FDA's DC Office of Criminal Investigations; Alec Burlakoff, former Vice President of Sales of Insys Therapeutics; and Fred Wyshak, Nathaniel Yeager, and David Lazarus, federal prosecutors in Boston.
Physical Description:1 online resource (14 minutes)
Playing Time:00:13:18