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      • Pain Hustlers explores the cost of greed and the role of the pharmaceutical industry in the fentanyl crisis in the United States. While the backdrop of the opioid crisis is based on real events, the characters and companies in Pain Hustlers are fictional, with some inspiration drawn from real-life companies like Insys Therapeutics.
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  2. Sep 12, 2023 · An outrageous tale, in more than one way. Pain Hustlers began as a 2018 article for the New York Times Magazine by Evan Hughes, chronicling the travails of Insys, founded by billionaire John...

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  3. Pain Hustlers is a 2023 American crime comedy film co-produced and directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Wells Tower, based on the 2022 book of the same name by Evan Hughes. [3] [4] The film is loosely based on the activities of the real world company Insys Therapeutics and their role in the US opioid crisis.

  4. Oct 31, 2023 · Yes. A fentanyl-based drug company did face consequences in real life for peddling through "speaker programs." The film was inspired by a 2018 New York Times Magazine article that writer...

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  5. Oct 27, 2023 · What is Pain Hustlers based on? The seed of the film began with a 2018 investigative article by Evan Hughes for the New York Times Magazine about Insys, a company founded by billionaire John...

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  6. Oct 30, 2023 · Pain Hustlers was inspired by journalist Evan Hughes's 2018 New York Times Magazine coverage (and subsequent nonfiction book) on the Arizona-based pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics.

  7. Emily Blunt and Chris Evans star in Pain Hustlers, a new drama based on a true story.

  8. Oct 27, 2023 · In Pain Hustlers, Liza Drake (Emily Blunt) is a down-on-her-luck mom struggling to find gainful employment so she can take care of her daughter's epilepsy when she's offered a job by a Zanna pharmaceutical representative, David Brenner (Chris Evans) selling a fentanyl product, Lonafen.

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