Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $572 million for its role in causing the Oklahoma opioid crisis. Oklahoma’s attorney general showed during the lawsuit that the company aggressively marketed opioids to doctors while downplaying the risks of these highly addictive painkillers since the 1990s and costing the state of Oklahoma billions of dollars. This was […]
Drug Companies Distributing Opiates Illegally For Profit
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 […]
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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