<p><b>Soon to be the major motion picture <i>Pain Hustlers</i> starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans streaming on Netflix<br><br>‘A pacey crime caper set against the backdrop of the opioid crisis . . . When I tell you that reading <i>The Hard Sell</i> is like watching a Scorsese film, you will assume I am exaggerating. Pick it up and tell me I’m wrong.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, <i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>In the early 2000s, John Kapoor had already amassed a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he founded Insys Therapeutics. A boom time for painkillers, he had developed a novel formulation of fentanyl, the most potent opioid on the market.<br><br>Kapoor, a brilliant scientist with relentless business instincts, was eager to make the most of his innovation. But there was a problem: the drug was approved only for cancer patients in dire condition. So he recruited an a