Internal drug company emails show indifference to opioid epidemic
7/20/19
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from The Washington Post,
7/19/19:
In May 2008, as the opioid epidemic was raging in America, a representative of the nation’s largest manufacturer of opioid pain pills sent an email to a client at a wholesale drug distributor in Ohio.
Victor Borelli, a national account manager for Mallinckrodt, told Steve Cochrane, the vice president of sales for KeySource Medical, to check his inventories and “[i]f you are low, order more. If you are okay, order a little more, Capesce?”
Then Borelli joked, “destroy this email. . .Is that really possible? Oh Well. . .”
Previously, Borelli used the phrase “ship, ship, ship” to describe his job.
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