Mariana van Zeller
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And they were distributing.
The numbers were crazy.
90 of the top 100 doctors prescribing OxyContin were in Florida.
And this is the sad part.
It's not as if like these pharmaceutical companies or the distribution companies didn't know this was happening.
They just pretended that they didn't because it was huge business and it was great.
Because they had really lax regulations.
So you could go doctor shopping.
You could go โ I went undercover.
So that was part of the story that we did, OxyContin Express, where I went undercover into one of these pain clinics.
And I asked the receptionist, I said, I have a little bit of a back pain.
What do I need to do if I want to get some pills?
And she said, oh, what would you like?
And we can give you Oxycontin.