Barry Meier is a writer and former New York Times journalist who wrote the 2003 non-fiction book Pain Killer: A Wonder Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death.
[4] They said the company had undertaken a "massive marketing campaign", based on a "unique claim" for OxyContin, with FDA permission, that, "as a long-acting opioid, it might be less likely to cause abuse and addiction than shorter-acting painkillers like Percocet.
[2] A 2004 New York Times review of the book concluded: For years, doctors who prescribed OxyContin were told that the risk of addiction to the painkiller was less than 1 percent.
Only after the drug had devastated thousands of lives was it revealed that this figure, touted as scientific fact, was based on a small study that had no relevance for the general public.
[6][7] Meier's 2021 book entitled Spooked: The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies focused on the former The Wall Street Journal journalist, Glenn R. Simpson and the company he founded and co-owned—Fusion GPS—the spy they hired—Christopher Steele—and his report—the Steele dossier prior to the 2016 United States presidential election.