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Ivy League Doctor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Insys Opioid Kickbacks

  • Rhode Island physician got bribes to prescribe painkiller
  • Case resulted from federal probe of Insys Therapeutics
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How America's Opioid Crisis Spiraled Out of Control

A Rhode Island doctor who took kickbacks from Insys Therapeutics Inc. officials for prescribing the company’s highly addictive liquid version of the opioid painkiller Fentanyl was sentenced to more than four years in prison.

Jerrold Rosenberg, who lost his medical license and was ousted from his post as a Brown University professor, pleaded guilty to taking more than $188,000 in kickbacks disguised as speaker fees and creating false patient records to dupe insurers into covering Insys’s Subsys pain medication.