Caught on tape: Pharma rep lies to get opioid tied to Cherry Hill death
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Deborah Fuller is clear about what she will tell Sen. Claire McCaskill next week about the pharmaceutical industry’s role in her daughter’s overdose last year:
“Basically, you know, they set her up to die.”
She will say this in Washington on Tuesday because she has proof: a 2015 audio recording of a drug industry representative pretending to work for the Cherry Hill doctor who was treating Sarah Fuller. On the recording, the rep can be heard misrepresenting Sarah’s diagnosis so that she could receive one of the most powerful and deadly opioids on the market. The motivation? This drug, approved only for cancer patients, costs over $20,000 a month. In Sarah Fuller’s case, the bill to taxpayers came to more than a quarter-million dollars, since she was disabled and covered by Medicare.