Opioid Maker, Insys, Admits To Bribing Doctors To Prescribe Addictive Opiates. After being found guilty for racketeering conspiracy in court because Insys paid doctors illegally to prescribe opiates, they’re fined a paltry $225 million. It’s unknown how many multiples of this the company made for their illegal practices. It’s also not clear how many lives […]
The Agony Of Opiate Withdrawal
Travis Rieder talks about the agony of opioid withdrawal. The Beginning of Opiate Addiction. No one starts off wanting to get addicted to an opiate. Travis, like so many others, was prescribed opiates after being injured. He didn’t realize he would become addicted or what that would mean. He found out the hard way. The […]
Drug Co. Exec Bribes Doctors To Prescribe Opiates
Pharmaceutical exec guilty of bribing doctors to push opioids on their patients. Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor was found guilty for a scheme to bribe doctors to boost sales of a highly addictive fentanyl spray which is generally for cancer patients with very severe pain. The company founder apparently payed doctors millions of dollars in […]
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