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Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid

posted by martyb on Thursday January 31 2019, @07:59PM   
from the save-the-last-[lap]-dance-for-me?? dept.

takyon writes:

Insys exec allegedly gave lap dance to doctor while pushing deadly opioid

A former regional sales director for Insys Therapeutics allegedly gave a lap dance to a doctor as the company was pushing him to prescribe its deadly opioid painkiller to patients. That's according to multiple reports of testimony given Tuesday from a former Insys colleague in a federal court in Boston.

The testimony is part of a federal racketeering trial getting underway this week against Insys founder John Kapoor and four former executives, including the sales director, Sunrise Lee. Federal prosecutors allege that the Insys executives used bribes and kickbacks to get doctors to prescribe the company's powerful and addictive fentanyl spray, called Subsys—which was intended only for cancer patients experiencing pain that's not alleviated by other medications (aka "breakthrough pain"). The former executives are also accused of misleading and defrauding health insurance companies that ended up covering the drug for patients who did not need it. A congressional investigation in 2017 concluded that Insys sales representatives bluntly lied and tricked insurers to do that—and the investigators released the tapes to prove it.

Previously: Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan
The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make

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Original Submission

• "Ars Technica turned into yellow rag" is the news? "Ars Technica turned into yellow rag" is the news? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @09:45PM (5 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @09:45PM (#794719)

  And is Soylent now set to follow?
  A propaganda piece this blatant is an insult to rationality, whatever the cause. When author does not respect readers, he/she/it is sure to respect facts even less.

• Re:"Ars Technica turned into yellow rag" is the ne Re:"Ars Technica turned into yellow rag" is the ne (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:35PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:35PM (#794752)

  How can this possibly classify as propaganda??

  Can you trolls maybe just NOT? Some of us enjoy real discussion.

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  • Yellow-press lexicon all over the place Yellow-press lexicon all over the place (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @11:54PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @11:54PM (#794799)

    If that's not enough to you, then please eat up all the "not-propaganda" you wish. But have the decency not to feed your slop to others.

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    • Re:Yellow-press lexicon all over the place (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @04:41AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @04:41AM (#794873)

      You didn't even answer the question. How is this propaganda? Medical rep gives lap dance to sell drugs, ooooh the brainwashing!

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• Propaganda? Surely You Jest! (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:36PM

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:36PM (#794753) Homepage Journal

  Kapoor was convicted in 2017 for reasons that also have to do with him being a drug pusher.

  The testimony has already been given; criminal procedures can have Depositions too.

  Please to be specific as to what about TFS or TFA made them Propaganda.

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• Re:"Ars Technica turned into yellow rag" is the ne (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @11:27PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @11:27PM (#794784)

  t. doctor

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