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...
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...
(CNN)The Insys Therapeutics executive dressed as a giant bottle of Subsys, a spray version of fentanyl, the synthetic opioid that is more than 100 times stronger than morphine. He danced and boasted of taking over the market. “I’m built to last,” rapped Alec...
Top executives at the Arizona-based drug company Insys Therapeutics bribed doctors into prescribing an addictive opioid spray containing fentanyl, deceiving insurers into paying for it, federal prosecutors in Boston claimed Thursday. Insys founder and majority owner...
MANCHESTER — A medical malpractice trial that started Monday in Hillsborough County Superior Court hinges on whether an ambulance should have turned on its lights and sirens. If Dr. Jennifer T. Jones, the chief of internal medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical...
Five former Insys Therapeutics executives paid unscrupulous physicians millions of dollars in bribes to prescribe a powerful opioid painkiller to patients who shouldn’t have gotten it — and sometimes got addicted — in a scheme of “brazen audacity,” a government lawyer...
BOSTON — Drug company executives weren’t satisfied with sales for their powerful painkiller, so they devised a plan, prosecutors say: Offer cash to doctors in exchange for prescriptions. Soon, the highly addictive fentanyl spray was flourishing, and executives were...
CONCORD — A federal jury on Tuesday found a former physician’s assistant “guilty of participating in a scheme in which he received kickbacks in exchange for prescribing a powerful fentanyl spray to patients in violation of federal law,” announced U.S. Attorney Scott...
CONCORD, N.H. — A trial is underway for a New Hampshire physician assistant accused of writing prescriptions in exchange for kickbacks. The case revolves around the fentanyl spray SUBSYS, a powerful pain medication. Prosecutors said the 43-year-old Christopher...
MANCHESTER — A medical malpractice trial that started Monday in Hillsborough County Superior Court hinges on whether an ambulance should have turned on its lights and sirens. If Dr. Jennifer T. Jones, the chief of internal medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical...