Opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics has agreed to pay a $225 million settlement to resolve the federal government's criminal and civil investigations into the company's illegal marketing of a powerful but highly-addictive painkiller, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Insys Therapeutics officials said the deferred prosecution agreement with the government is"in the best interest of the company and its stakeholders." Prosecutors said that Insys Therapeutics used sham"speaker programs" from August 2012 to June 2015 to pay bribes and kickbacks to doctors and nurse practitioners in exchange for writing prescriptions for Subsys, a fentanyl-based medication that's sprayed under the tongue, and for increasing the dosage of those prescriptions.
“For years, Insys engaged in prolonged, illegal conduct that prioritized its profits over the health of the thousands of patients who relied on it," Andrew E. Lelling, the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said in a statement Wednesday."Today, the company is being held responsible for that and for its role in fueling the opioid epidemic.
Another insignificant payout for the murder of tens of thousands of Americans and no prison time for those responsible. OUTRAGEOUS The hypocrisy of the prison complex show tens of thousands of Americans in prison for non violent offenses.
...and business as usual...
Wow. All the good pharma companies do to bring drugs to market for unmet medical needs, what one company does calls everything good into doubt.
There is no end to the greed.
A slap on the wrist We need jail terms
That's a small amount of money for them to pay all the life's been lost
WHERE DOES THAT MONEY GO? 🇺🇸
I thought the drug problem was from Mexico. 🤷🏼♀️
And who goes to prison for this? No one, golly gee. 🇺🇸
Whole families have been destroyed by these amoral, greedy corporations. Settlements, no matter how large, are not appropriatehere, these companies need to be disbanded and their executives jailed.
Slap on the wrist
Yes, after they made billions they will gladly pay a quarter of a billion, duh
And what percentage does that represent of the total profits they made from the drugs? I suspect it falls into the range of “minor nuisance cost of doing business.”
Hey where is the outrage?
They need to replace opioids with thc
NOT ENOUGH 225 million is not much to this company
Pennies. 😖
that's it? that should have been the punitive amount, on top of a fine for all profits from that drug.
this is a victory for those killing Americans with legal drugs
So who gets that money?
So Trump can spend it on golfing
I wonder how much they spend on employee bonuses and incentives. More than that?
That’s nothing compared to their profits
that's it
But they won't go to jail because they have money. That's the real reason Lady Justice is blindfolded.
That’s a slap on the wrist. Didn’t Trump want to handle Drug dealers as his buddy Duterte does in the Philippines?
Why pay the gov’t?
and cigarettes are right there not being sued for causing cancer and being EXTREMELY addictive ...
A fine is nothong but a tax break to these crooks. They should go to jail just as some who stole $500
Fine them? Prosecute them!
This only hurts patients
That’s it?
I'm glad to see the trump administration is doing something about this unlike the obama administration who caused it by doing nothing.
what a small price to pay
That all?
If they can afford that Penalty, imagine how much money they're Really making?...
Until there are jail sentences these fines are just cost of doing business
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