I just posted earlier about Doug Ducey's connection to DEEP ROOTS inc. and now Q posts about the swamp running DEEP. I also posted about Doug Ducey's connection to the Fentanyl Manufacturer in Chandler AZ called Insys Therapeutics. Ducey's assistant owns a drug testing company.

— A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday.

John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy after 15 days of jury deliberations. Four ex-employees of the Chandler, Arizona-based company, including a former stripper-turned-sales-rep, were also convicted.

Federal prosecutors portrayed the case as part of the government’s effort to go after those it views as responsible for fueling the nation’s deadly opioid crisis.

Several doctors have been convicted in other cases of participating in a kickback scheme. A number of states have sued the Insys, which also agreed last year to pay $150 million to settle a federal investigation into inappropriate sales.

https://azmarijuana.com/arizona-medical-marijuana-news/arizona-based-fentanyl-drug-company-executives-found-guilty/

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My Turn: Governor and prosecutors are hypocrites on opioid addiction

My Turn: If Arizona's leaders were serious about solving the opioid crisis, they wouldn't have been so eager to accept cash from an opioid manufacturer.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2017/08/14/opioid-manufacturer-donation-proves-hypocrite-addiction/559608001/

Same guy in the Q post. Paul Sperry

https://nypost.com/2018/08/04/how-twitter-is-fueling-the-democratic-agenda/

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My Turn: Governor and prosecutors are hypocrites on opioid addiction

My Turn: If Arizona's leaders were serious about solving the opioid crisis, they wouldn't have been so eager to accept cash from an opioid manufacturer.

J.P. Holyoak

AZ I See It

Gov. Doug Ducey signed an order in October 2016 that seeks to limit painkiller prescriptions to seven days in a bid to restrict access to highly addictive drugs.

Last month Gov. Doug Ducey declared a public health emergency to address Arizona’s opioid epidemic. Ducey has teamed up with Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery and Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk in paying lip service to this real crisis.

The phrase “lip service” is the most generous term that can be used considering that Ducey, Montgomery and Polk accepted money from opioid maker Insys Therapeutics.

Insys Therapeutics is a Chandler-based pharmaceutical company whose sole current source of revenue is from the sale of opioids.

GOVERNOR:Three big things we're doing to stop opioid addiction

Six of Insys Therapeutics executives and managers have been indicted, including CEO Michael Babich, on accusations of illegal kickback payment schemes to doctors who improperly wrote prescriptions for opioids.

You’ve got that right — Insys allegedly was bribing doctors to write prescriptions for highly addictive and deadly opioids.

FBI Assistant Director Diego Rodriguez said in a statement, “This case should be something the medical industry and the general public should pay close attention to because it’s one of the reasons we’re experiencing an epidemic of overdoses and deaths in this country.”

Polk was 'proud' to get Insys's $500k

Dr. Steve Fanta, a Scottsdale doctor who took lucrative payments from Insys, a Chandler drug company, has agreed to an interim order that prevents him from practicing medicine.

Last year, Insys Therapeutics gave $500,000 to the anti-marijuana legalization campaign headed by Polk, supported by Montgomery and fund-raised by Ducey. Here is what County Attorney Polk had to say about the money her campaign received from Insys:

“Our campaign has received a generous donation from a company in Arizona that produces prescription painkillers. I’m proud to receive that money.”

So far, Insys’s investment may be paying off. Insys executives seem to be getting arrested and criminally charged everywhere other than their home state — Arizona.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2017/08/14/opioid-manufacturer-donation-proves-hypocrite-addiction/559608001/