NEW YORK - A New York doctor was convicted on Thursday of accepting thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks from Insys Therapeutics Inc in exchange for prescribing his patients an addictive fentanyl spray the drug manufacturer produced.
A federal jury in Manhattan found Freedman guilty of conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute and conspiring to commit honest services wire fraud, prosecutors said. Fentanyl is up to 100 times stronger than morphine. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Subsys for use in treating cancer pain, doctors who took bribes often prescribed it to non-cancer patients, prosecutors said.
The doctor was among five in New York indicted in March 2018 on charges that they accepted kickbacks from Insys. The other four have pleaded guilty.
Very good.
I’m sure he was the only one so now the investigation is over 🙄
I'm confused why more people aren't holding doctors accountable for being the first opioid dealers MOST addicts have. DOCTORS over prescribed a dangerous drug with no concern or accountability. People wouldn't have gotten hooked if their DOCTORS hadn't given them the first score.
Duhhhh... they all get kickbacks BigPharma
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