Federal prosecutors charged a U.K. pharmaceutical company with organizing a multibillion-dollar fraud to drive up sales of Suboxone Film, an opioid-addiction treatment. As part of an indictment filed Tuesday in Virginia, the Justice Department said Indivior PLC set up a telephone and online program intended to connect callers with doctors that Indivior knew were prescribing Suboxone or opioids in a “careless and clinically unwarranted manner.”...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 10, 2019 01:18 UTC