Month: June 2019

CONCORD — A former physician assistant, described as “one of the nation’s most prolific prescribers” of the addictive fentanyl spray Subsys, was sentenced Monday to 4 years in prison for prescribing the drug to ineligible patients and taking cash kickbacks from the...

The opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics agreed to pay $225 million to settle federal criminal and civil charges that it illegally marketed a highly addictive fentanyl painkiller to doctors, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday. As part of the deal, a subsidiary of...