Drug company founder indicted in U.S.-wide opioid conspiracy

[Origanalist]

PHOENIX >> U.S. prosecutors brought a fraud and racketeering case today against the 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.

The charges against Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor came on the same day that President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency.

It follows indictments against the company’s former CEO and other executives and managers on allegations that they provided kickbacks to doctors to prescribe a potent opioid called Subsys.

In a new indictment, Kapoor and the other defendants are accused of offering bribes to doctors to write large numbers of prescriptions for the fentanyl-based pain medication that is meant only for cancer patients with severe pain. Most of the people who received prescriptions did not have cancer.


In addition to the criminal charges, states have been suing Insys over its marketing practices.

Meanwhile, the company has been active in politics, donating $500,000 last year to an Arizona campaign to defeat a ballot measure to legalize marijuana.

http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/10/26/breaking-news/drug-company-founder-indicted-in-u-s-wide-opioid-conspiracy/

[Brian4Liberty]

Big pharma is directly responsible for the opioid epidemic. Seems that the main job of Doctors anymore is to prescribe drugs. Go in for anything, and you will likely come home with a drug or two.

The problem has come from over prescription. Kids get a hold of parents or grandparents drugs, and they become addicted. Yet at the same time, their attempts to solve that often makes it harder to get drugs to patients who truly need them.

The big pharma business model has worked well, turning us into a drug culture. Drugs are both recreation and treatment. Some version of a drug for every situation. Plus it helps to start them young. Give those kids a prescription in kindergarten...

[Origanalist]

Big pharma is directly responsible for the opioid epidemic. Seems that the main job of Doctors anymore is to prescribe drugs. Go in for anything, and you will likely come home with a drug or two.

The problem has come from over prescription. Kids get a hold of parents or grandparents drugs, and they become addicted. Yet at the same time, their attempts to solve that often makes it harder to get drugs to patients who truly need them.

The big pharma business model has worked well, turning us into a drug culture. Drugs are both recreation and treatment. Some version of a drug for every situation. Plus it helps to start them young. Give those kids a prescription in kindergarten...

That's one thing that really ticks me off.The crap they prescribe to little kids is mind boggling.

[Jamesiv1]

Anybody that thinks its wrong to sneak a few of Grandma's pills now and then can get the hell out.

[Raginfridus]

Anybody that thinks its wrong to sneak a few of Grandma's pills now and then can get the hell out.

https://youtu.be/K6Z2ag8FMZw

Blessings of the State. Blessings of the Masses.

[enhanced_deficit]

PHOENIX >> U.S. prosecutors brought a fraud and racketeering case today against the 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.

The charges against Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor came on the same day that President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency.

It follows indictments against the company’s former CEO and other executives and managers on allegations that they provided kickbacks to doctors to prescribe a potent opioid called Subsys.

In a new indictment, Kapoor and the other defendants are accused of offering bribes to doctors to write large numbers of prescriptions for the fentanyl-based pain medication that is meant only for cancer patients with severe pain. Most of the people who received prescriptions did not have cancer.

http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/10/26/breaking-news/drug-company-founder-indicted-in-u-s-wide-opioid-conspiracy/




To be fair, same pharma company was involved in some community service projects too:


Anti-marijuana campaign's biggest donor? Chandler pharma company

Sept. 8, 2016
A Chandler pharmaceutical company made a $500,000 donation to the campaign opposing the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, making it the largest funder of the effort to defeat Proposition 205.INSYS Therapeutics Inc. makes a fast-acting form of fentanyl that is sprayed under the tongue, and "may provide pain relief in as little as 5 minutes," according to its website. INSYS also touts on its website a "capability to develop pharmaceutical cannabinoids," the active components of the marijuana plant.
In a statement, Insys Therapeutics said it opposes Prop. 205 "because it fails to protect the safety of Arizona’s citizens, and particularly its children."
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/09/08/anti-marijuana-campaigns-biggest-donor-chandler-pharma-company/89981456




Timing wise, it is probably just coincidence that these news came around same time SoS Tillerson visited Afghanistan & India.


Afghanistan Strategy: Is President Trump acting on his recent ultimatum for India's Modi? (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?516241-Is-President-Trump-acting-on-his-recent-ultimatum-for-India-s-Modi&)


Trump tightens H-1B visa rules: What you need to know
New rules from Trump Administration will make it harder for visa holders to extend their stay in the U.S.

By Patrick May | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: October 25, 2017
This morning’s headline at one Indian news website said it all: “Trouble for Indian Techies”

John Kapoor Tops Indian Americans in Forbes’ 400 Richest People
Oct 3, 2015


Kapoor, 72, who is the chairman and majority owner of drug companies Akorn and Insys Therapeutics, is worth a total of $3.3 billion.





Regardless, Trump should look into booming opioids raw goods production in Afghanistan too that has sky rocketed during 16 years of US freedom war , especially during Obama years war escalation.