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Pharma Execs Arrested in Shockingly Organized Scheme to Overprescribe Notorious Opioid

Friday, December 9, 2016

by Slate

On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionreleased data showing that overdose deaths caused by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl—the drug that killed Prince rose by nearly 75 percent in 2015. On the same day, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced the arrest of six former employees including a former CEO and two former vice presidents, of the Phoenix-based and NASDAQ-traded fentanyl producer Insys Therapeutics. The individuals are charged with bribing doctors and otherwise conspiring to induce the overprescription of a fentanyl product called Subsys.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/12/09/executives_at_major_fentanyl_producer_arrested_in_overprescription_case.html