NYT: The Opioid That Made a Fortune for Its Maker — and for Its Prescribers
Insys Therapeutics paid millions of dollars to doctors. The company called it a “speaker program,” but prosecutors now call it something else: a kickback scheme.
Here’s an example of how Big Pharma is complicit in the crippling opioid crisis, brought to us by the New York Times. Doctors would prescribe opioid painkillers in exchange for millions of dollars from a company that produced the pills.