{{Short description|American physician and scientist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Scott Hadland | image = Dr. Scott Hadland.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|11|19}} | alma_mater = Harvard University <br /> Washington University in St. Louis <br /> Johns Hopkins University <br /> McGill University | thesis_title = | website = [https://www.bumc.bu.edu/care/faculty/scott-hadland/ Boston University profile] | fields = pediatrics, adolescent medicine, addiction medicine, opioids, pharmaceutical marketing | workplaces = Boston Children's Hospital<br /> Boston Medical Center <br /> Harvard University }}
'''Scott E. Hadland''' (born November 19, 1981) is a Canadian-American physician and scientist who serves as a pediatrician, and addiction specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hadland's leadership expands health care access for teens and young adults |url=https://www.massgeneral.org/children/adolescent-and-young-adult-medicine/hadlands-leadership-expands-health-care-access-for-teens-and-young-adults |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=Massachusetts General Hospital |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Boston doctor calls for more accessible, free COVID-19 testing |url=https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2021/08/13/scott-hadland-testing-boston/ |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=www.boston.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=We asked 5 pediatricians every question about kids and Omicron |url=https://fortune.com/2021/12/28/omicron-symptoms-in-kids-pediatricians-answers-covid-treatment-vaccines/ |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=Fortune |language=en}}</ref> and Harvard Medical School, where he is the Chief of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=When it takes a village . . . and a day care . . . and a taekwondo instructor to raise a child - The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/28/magazine/when-it-takes-village-day-care-taekwondo-instructor-raise-child/ |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=BostonGlobe.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-14 |title=Harvard specialists sift damage of pandemic-era drinking |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/06/harvard-specialists-sift-damage-of-pandemic-era-drinking/ |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=Harvard Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref> He previously served as an addiction specialist at the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Thomas |first1=Katie |last2=Hsu |first2=Tiffany |date=2019-08-27 |title=Johnson & Johnson's Brand Falters Over Its Role in the Opioid Crisis |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/health/johnson-and-johnson-opioids-oklahoma.html |access-date=2022-07-09 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
A key finding of Hadland's research has been to confirm that an increase in dollars spent on marketing from the pharmaceutical industry to American doctors was linked to mortality from opioid overdoses one year later.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Hadland|first1=Scott E.|last2=Rivera-Aguirre|first2=Ariadne|last3=Marshall|first3=Brandon D. L.|last4=Cerdá|first4=Magdalena|date=2019-01-18|title=Association of Pharmaceutical Industry Marketing of Opioid Products With Mortality From Opioid-Related Overdoses|journal=JAMA Network Open|volume=2|issue=1|pages=e186007|doi=10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.6007|pmid=30657529 |pmc=6484875 |issn=2574-3805}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Goodnough|first=Abby|date=2019-01-18|title=Study Links Drug Maker Gifts for Doctors to More Overdose Deaths|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/health/opioids-doctors-overdose-deaths.html|access-date=2022-01-14|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kounang |first=Nadia |date=2019-01-18 |title=With more money spent marketing opioids, more overdose deaths followed, study says |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/health/opioid-marketing-money-overdose-death-increase-study/index.html |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref>
== Research == A series of studies led by Hadland provide evidence linking the marketing of opioids directly to doctors, and the addiction epidemic in the United States. Counties where opioid manufacturers offered gifts and payments to doctors were found to have more overdose deaths involving prescription painkillers than counties where direct-to-physician marketing was less aggressive.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> The pharmaceutical industry spent $39.7 million promoting opioid medications to nearly 68,000 doctors from 2013 through 2015, including meals, trips and consulting fees.<ref name=":0" /> For every three additional payments to doctors per 100,000 people in a county, overdose deaths involving prescription opioids in that area, a year later, were 18 percent higher.
In another study, Hadland showed that doctors participating in the national Medicare program who received drug company marketing of opioids prescribed on average 9% more opioids the next year compared to those who did not receive marketing.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Hadland |first1=Scott E. |last2=Cerdá |first2=Magdalena |last3=Li |first3=Yu |last4=Krieger |first4=Maxwell S. |last5=Marshall |first5=Brandon D. L. |date=2018-06-01 |title=Association of Pharmaceutical Industry Marketing of Opioid Products to Physicians With Subsequent Opioid Prescribing |journal=JAMA Internal Medicine |volume=178 |issue=6 |pages=861–863 |doi=10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.1999 |pmid=29799955 |pmc=6145750 |issn=2168-6106}}</ref> In this study, which examined marketing in 2014, Insys Therapeutics was responsible for half of all marketing dollars to doctors.<ref name=":2" /> The marketing practices of Insys were the subject of federal investigation in which Hadland's study was cited, and its chief executive officer, John Kapoor, was convicted by a federal jury of racketeering conspiracy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lopez |first=German |date=2018-05-15 |title=Drug companies bought doctors fancy meals — and then those doctors prescribed more opioids |url=https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/15/17355722/opioid-epidemic-doctor-pharma-insys |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=Vox |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-23 |title=Founder and Former Chairman of the Board of Insys Therapeutics Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison |url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/founder-and-former-chairman-board-insys-therapeutics-sentenced-66-months-prison |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=www.justice.gov |language=en}}</ref>
Hadland's work has also examined drug company marketing of stimulant medications to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-24 |title=Drug companies marketing stimulants to doctors can impact prescribing practices, study shows |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/01/24/drug-companies-marketing-stimulants-to-doctors-can-impact-prescribing-practices-study-shows/ |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=Boston Herald |language=en-US}}</ref> the effects of prescription drug monitoring programs on adolescent injection drug use,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Earlywine |first1=Joel J. |last2=Hadland |first2=Scott E. |last3=Raifman |first3=Julia |date=2020-09-25 |title=State-level prescription drug monitoring program mandates and adolescent injection drug use in the United States, 1995–2017: A difference-in-differences analysis |journal=PLOS Medicine |language=en |volume=17 |issue=9 |article-number=e1003272 |doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003272 |issn=1549-1676 |pmc=7518580 |pmid=32976539 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and treatment for teens addicted to nicotine.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cohan |first=Alexi |date=2019-09-23 |title=Boston hospitals' study: Docs failing kids addicted to nicotine |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/09/23/boston-hospitals-study-doc-failing-kids-with-nicotine-addiction/ |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=Boston Herald |language=en-US}}</ref>
Hadland's writing on various health-related topics has appeared in USA Today,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hadland |first=Dr Scott |title=Back to school: Young kids need COVID testing and lots of it. Why is it so hard to get? |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/08/12/covid-tests-hard-to-find-unvaccinated-kids-under-12/5540296001/ |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hadland |first=Dr Scott E. |title=Don't let George Floyd's substance use muddy the facts in Derek Chauvin trial: Addiction doctor |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/04/13/how-view-george-floyds-drug-addiction-column/7199523002/ |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref> CNN<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 March 2021 |title=Opinion: The other health crisis the stimulus package will help |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/10/opinions/drug-addiction-overdose-crisis-covid-relief-bill-hadland/index.html |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=CNN}}</ref> and Newsweek.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-09 |title=How the Child Tax Credit can break cycles of addiction {{!}} Opinion |url=https://www.newsweek.com/how-child-tax-credit-can-break-cycles-addiction-opinion-1627144 |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}</ref> He has also appeared on CNN News to discuss COVID-19 related issues and quoted by ABC News.<ref>{{Citation |title=New Day With John Berman and Brianna Keilar : CNNW: August 13, 2021 2:59am-4:00am PDT |date=2021-08-13 |url=http://archive.org/details/CNNW_20210813_095900_New_Day_With_John_Berman_and_Brianna_Keilar |access-date=2022-07-09 |others=CNNW}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rothstein |first=Kevin |date=2022-05-02 |title=Mother's warning about fentanyl and teens |url=https://www.wcvb.com/article/massachusetts-mothers-warning-fentanyl-drugs-teenagers/39881835 |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=WCVB |language=en}}</ref>
== Personal life == Hadland is married and lives in Boston with his husband, Jason Vassy, and two children.<ref name=":3" />
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