Two former sales reps pleaded guilty on Tuesday to bribing doctors in exchange for prescribing the powerful Subsys painkiller sold by Insys Therapeutics, which is under numerous investigations by state and federal authorities for its role in the opioid epidemic.
In both instances, the sales reps pleaded guilty to violating the federal anti-kickback law for participating in a speaker program that prosecutors say was used to reward doctors and other medical practitioners for prescribing Subsys, which contains fentanyl and carries a high risk of dependency.
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What about prosecuting the Physicians for taking bribes??????????
For all their trouble let’s hope it was 100% organic rainforest cacao dark chocolate, generally considered the world’s finest.
Hi Pharmvet1,
Agreed.
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