“Pharma Bro,” available on demand on Oct. 5.“He thinks that it [the goading] is fun,” she adds.Brent Hodge, the film’s director, told The Post that his interest in Shkreli was sparked by damning headlines published in September 2015.
Nearly all of them branded the then-32-year-old businessman “public enemy number one.”The media was incensed by the news that Shkreli, then CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, had dramatically increased the cost of its anti-parasitic drug Daraprim.
The price of a single pill skyrocketed overnight from $13.50 to $750 — a staggering increase of 5,500 percent.Many people who’d been prescribed the medication could no longer afford it.
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