Opioid Billionaire's Indictment Opens New Window on Epidemic
- Kapoor rose from modest background to become U.S. billionaire
- Insys founder facing conspiracy charges over doctors’ payments
Insys Founder Charged With Helping to Fuel Opioid Crisis
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More than a decade after opioid painkillers first exploded across the U.S., John Kapoor found an aggressive way to sell even more, according to prosecutors: He began bribing doctors to prescribe them.
Speakers’ fees, dinners, entertainment, cash -- federal charges unsealed Thursday claim Kapoor’s striving company, Insys Therapeutics Inc., employed all of that and more to spur prescriptions of a highly addictive fentanyl-based drug intended only for cancer patients.