The fraud and racketeering case against Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor came the same day U.S. President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency. prosecutors levelled charges Thursday against the billionaire founder of an opioid medication maker that has faced increasing scrutiny from authorities across the country over allegations of pushing prescriptions of powerful painkillers amid a drug epidemic that is claiming thousands of lives each year. Most of the people who received prescriptions did not have cancer. Several former Insys employees and health care providers have pleaded guilty to felony charges around the country, including in Alabama and Connecticut. A Rhode Island doctor pleaded guilty Wednesday to accepting kickbacks in return for prescribing the highly addictive fentanyl spray.

Source: thestar October 27, 2017 01:41 UTC