PositiveThe Boston Globe... a tightly focused and insightful account of how a company that went public in the most successful IPO of 2013 soon ended up a poster child for corporate greed and chicanery, a firm so corrupt that prosecutors brought it to heel using federal statutes created to fight the Mafia ... Marbled throughout The Hard Sell are vivid portraits of key executive ... If there’s one element that gets relatively short shrift, it’s the patients who got addicted to Subsys. Although no one contends that the painkiller played remotely as big a role in the opioid crisis as OxyContin, I wanted to read more about people who took it for aches that had nothing to do with cancer and got hooked ... Still, as a gripping tale of one drug firm’s unscrupulous efforts to profit from pain, The Hard Sell is hard to beat.
