Opioid drug manufacturer found to have repeatedly bribed doctors with lucrative kickbacks

‘If there was any lingering doubt in your mind that the major pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United States are truly evil, this story should kill it once and for all. The Daily Mail recently reported that the state of Arizona is suing pharma giant Insys – manufacturer of the fentanyl-based drug Subsys – for giving doctors hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to write illegal prescriptions for the highly addictive drug, netting themselves a cool $33 million in the last five years in the process.
“We need to put a stop to the unethical and greedy behavior in the pharmaceutical industry that is fueling the opioid crisis in our state,” said Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who believes that this fraud has had a direct impact on the state’s out-of-control addiction problem. (Related: Opioid epidemic reaches whole new crisis level as Big Pharma drugs out America for profit.)’
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