>>I still spend a few hours/year telling MD's why I won't use the meds (very expensive) that they want me to use.
>>I've noted that their persistence seems to vary directly with the cost of the meds.
>>In this case, people are dying because of these thieves but no less pernicious are the so-called MD's who prey on seniors with drugs and tests that they don't need.

From your own citation:

In the late 1990s, sales of prescription opioids began a steep climb. But by the time Subsys came to market in 2012, mounting regulatory scrutiny and changing medical opinion were thinning the ranks of prolific opioid prescribers. Chun was one of the holdouts, a true believer in treating pain with narcotics...

The entire market was anchored by a relatively small pool of prescribers. Winning the business of a handful of carefully selected practitioners per state could be enough to make Insys the market leader...

Insys managers divided the existing base of TIRF prescribers into deciles, according to how many scripts they wrote. The “high decile” practitioners tended not to specialize in treating cancer pain, according to the Boston indictment, but Insys went right after them. Sales reps were instructed to call on them multiple times a week, to the point of sitting in their waiting rooms for hours, angling for a moment with the doctor. As one manager told me, “You fish where the fish are.”

My understanding is that of approximately 1 million physicians in the US, 11 prescribers plus Chun are under the gun. That's not to say they're the only ones - but you're the one using this article to support a narrative, not me.

How typical of US politics that a tiny outlier minority that suits the narrative, is shamelessly cast as representative thiefs/vagabonds/[Insert hostile epithet here] to smear a whole profession or position.