5 Insys executives, including the owner are convicted
For the first time in this country, big pharma owners and empo9yee's have been convicted of crimes related to marketing and prescribing of opioids. Four of the five defendants wer each found to have commited at least 15 counts of racketering conspiricy.
The bottom line is they all 5 face up to 20 years in prison for bribing doctors to prescribe addictive fentanyl spray.
For those of you who remember my TV show, I interviewed Dr. Andrew Kolodny, co-director of Opioid Policy Research from Brandies Heller School way back in 2010 as the opioid problem was first recognized. He's quoted in the Globe as saying "I'm hopeful the we see more criminal prosecutions against opioid manufactures. Paying a fin or even civil litigation is inadequate if we want to deter corporations from killing people in their pursuit of profit".
Lets see if the feds treat these convicts like they would any other drug lord with millions in assets and use civil forfeiture. Lots of good news copy on this story if you google it.
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 3:44 PM
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4 Comments:
So you were ahead of the game on this. 2010 was when no one was yet recognizing this for the issue it was about to become. For the last 9 years we have gone further and further down this rabbit hole with good, strong people being ruined with a process that started with a legitimate prescription that they took without being warned of the possible consequences. It is good to see that some of those people who actually knowingly created this mess are being held accountable. Its about time.
Will this help the case Framingham has brought against these drug makers?
Are there any more law suits like this pending again docs for prescribing or drug companies for lying about the addictive quality of these drugs? And anyone know if an individual can sue these rich monsters for ruining their lives?
There have been many smaller companies who have paid fines, but no jail time for the CEO's, but I did read that Novartis is in court later this summer for the same illegal business practices.
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