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Scott Hadland (born November 19th, 1981) is an American physician-scientist, a pediatrician and addiction at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine. He serves as the Chief of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at MassGeneral Hospital for Children and Harvard Medical School. A key finding of Hadland's research has been to confirm the pernicious influence of pharmaceutical marketing on overdose deaths; an uptick in dollars spent on marketing from Big Pharma was shown to increase mortality from opioid overdoses after a one year period.

Opioid addiction
In early 2019, a new study by Hadland provided clear 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 related drugs, than counties where direct-to-physician marketing was less aggressive. The phamecutical industry spent about $40 million promoting opioid medications to nearly 68,000 doctors from 2013 through 2015, including meals, trips and consulting fees. Most concerning of all was the finding that 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.