Mariana van Zeller

They were making millions and millions of dollars out of a couple of storefronts in Florida.

And so he contacted them and they wrote back and said, yeah, I'm interested.

And by the way, say hi to your wife.

So they knew full well who he was.

And he ended up doing an amazing doc.

It's called American Pain.

You should watch it.

But it's about them, the rise and fall of these twin brothers, but also the complicity of the pharmaceutical companies.

And they full well knew exactly what was happening and did nothing about it.

And then fentanyl.

And then the exact same thing happened.

We did another documentary called Death by Fentanyl where we looked at the fentanyl and we investigated this one pharmaceutical company called Insys Therapeutics where they were selling Subsys, which was a fentanyl product.

And they were doing the exact same thing that Purdue had done just, you know, a few years before where they were paying doctors for fees to basically prescribe.

They were prescribing fentanyl to people with headaches and like shoulder pain.

And we got a whistleblower to tell us exactly how it was happening and how they were, you know, calling because the pills or this product was really, really expensive.

So insurance companies were paying for it.

So she would call insurance companies and say, oh, and they would ask, but, you know, this is only supposed to be prescribed to cancer patients.

Does this patient have cancer?

And they knew how to answer in a way that the person would believe they did, even though they didn't.

They were making millions of dollars.