Authorities arrested one of Arizona's richest men, Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor, on Thursday, charging him with marketing a powerful opioid using bribes and fraud. Kapoor, 74, is accused of illegal distribution of a fentanyl spray intended for cancer patients. The medication, Subsys, contains a narcotic that is 80 times more powerful than morphine. Prosecutors say Kapoor and several other former high-ranking Insys executives conspired to bribe doctors to write "large numbers of prescriptions for the patients, most of whom were not diagnosed with cancer," and to "mislead and defraud" health insurance companies that were reluctant to approve payments for non-cancer patients. The arrest came on the same day President Trump declared a national opioid epidemic to be a public health emergency. Source: NPR, USA Today |
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