![]() Insys and its drug, Subsys, were also renamed. So is Pete Brennar ( Chris Evans), who most resembles real-life sales manager Alec Burlakoff. Liza Drake (Emily Blunt) is a composite character that takes on many characters from the original article. Though Pain Hustlers remains a highly fictionalized work, many of the characters share similar roles in the story to their real-life counterparts. John Kapoor, who was most likely the inspiration for Jack Neel (Andy Garcia) in the new Netflix film. The company was founded by billionaire Dr. Hughes's reporting also included how Insys sold the drug, including the practice of hiring attractive sales reps and bribing medical practitioners. Both works detailed a start-up pharmaceutical company named Insys that marketed a fentanyl spray for the management of pain. 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 Evan Hughes later turned into a nonfiction book titled Pain Hustlers. ![]() Is Pain Hustlers Based on a Real Scandal?
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