Insys execs found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe highly addictive opioid

Insys execs found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe highly addictive opioid

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For the first time ever, U.S. attorneys say they have successfully prosecuted a top pharmaceutical executive in the government's fight against opioids. A federal jury on Thursday convicted Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and four other former executives of the company. Prosecutors accused them of bribing doctors to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray called Subsys. Anna Werner reports.

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