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UPDATED 11:20 AM PT โ€” Monday, January 13, 2020

The justice system is looking to crackdown on perpetrators of the opioid crisis as a federal court looks to set a precedent with high level executives of a pharmaceutical company. Recent reports confirmed the sentencing of seven top former employees, including the founder of Insys Therapeutics, who are set to appear in front of a federal judge in Boston, Massachusetts.

The case surrounding Insys founder John Kapoor and his employees stem from their scheme to over-prescribe their opioid product, which has affected nearly 400,000 lives over two decades.

โ€œPeople who are desperate for pain relief because theyโ€™ve suffered terrible pain injuries, and to see them being taken advantage of like this is sickening,โ€ said attorney Michael Rainboth.

The company bribed doctors to over-prescribe their fentanyl-based oral spray Subsys to cancer patients seeking to ease their pain. Insys also misled insurance companies to pay for the drug, which costs $19,000 a month.

 

https://www.oann.com/founder-executives-of-pharmaceutical-company-set-to-be-sentenced-in-scheme-of-over-prescribing-painkillers/