Dr. V. Matalon

Fuller had back and neck pain and fibromyalgia—not cancer or intractable pain from it. She also had a history of addiction to narcotic drugs. Despite knowing this, Fuller’s doctor, Dr. Vivienne Matalon of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, had been prescribing her opioid medications for pain management—namely OxyContin and Percocet—since 2014. But, in January 2015, Matalon and Fuller had a meeting with an Insys representative to discuss her switching to Subsys, which costs more than $20,000 per month.