Anonymous ID: 67ebf3 May 4, 2019, 1:16 a.m. No.6410240   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Executives Found Guilty Of Bribing Doctors To Prescribe Addictive Drugs

 

https://truepundit.com/executives-found-guilty-of-bribing-doctors-to-prescribe-addictive-drugs/

 

A federal jury declared five Insys executives guilty Thursday of bribing doctors to prescribe addictive drugs to patients.

 

The Boston jury found 76-year-old Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and four other former company executives guilty of bribing doctors to prescribethe addictive fentanyl spray Subsys, CBS News reported. They convicted the highest-ranking pharmaceutical representative thus far in U.S. opioid related cases,according to Reuters.

 

Prosecutors revealed evidence during the 10-week trial that included a rap video made by Insys in which a salesman brags about prescribing higher dosages, something prosecutors said was a strategy intended to get salesmen to persuade doctors to increase dosages. Prosecutors also revealed executives would bribe doctors by paying them for pretend speaking engagements.

 

The company made thousands of payments worth a total of over $2 million to doctors in 2016, according to CBS News.