Andrew Lelling, US attorney for the district of Massachusetts, hailed the convictions as"the first successful prosecution of top pharmaceutical executives for crimes related to the illicit marketing and prescribing of opioids." The trial put on display sales tactics such as lap dances to lure doctors and a company vice president who dressed as a Subsys bottle and rapped during a company promo.
The opioid epidemic has killed nearly 400,000 Americans since 1999, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Subsys is a rapid-onset opioid intended only for cancer patients with intense breakthrough pain. Prosecutors said the defendants conspired from May 2012 to December 2015 to bribe doctors, including many who ran pain clinics, to give the drug to patients who should never have received it.The drug is about 100 times more powerful than morphine.
Finally
Shocking and disgraceful
Yes all I see is money money money you die you can't sue them its an legal way to kill people minimize population in a legal way. So sad God have mercy for everything that's going on. That's why they stopped helping the gays and lesbians they want population to grow God bless
More reason to support legalizing recreational use of fentanyl
Post names and cities!
I’m very happy they got caught
Get the doctors, too.
Greed just like the rich greedy want this is got to stop our Healthcare is out of control and the Republicans don't want to do anything to stop it but lie to the people
Racketeering isnt that nearly a rico charge
Omg, NOT SURPRISED 😡😡😡
FakeNews
Good!
I hope the doctors are being charged as well.
The Subsys guys are total scumbags. But, the government doesn’t really give a shit about stopping the opioid crisis. This is a money grab and that’s all. The manufacturers aren’t going anywhere or losing licenses. They’re just handing over buku bucks.
Russian collusion
Good
What happened to the doctors
Let me guess ?Identified source? CNN Sucks
Don’t worry guys, sure you’ve been convicted but I hear they make pills for depression
capitalism spreading its wonders
And America’s total breakdown continues.
THESE PHARMACEUTICALS ARE COMPARED TO STREET DRUG DEALERS THEY WANT PEOPLE TO GET ADDICTED SO THEY CAN MAKE ILLIGAL MONEY
....and Doctors need to have their medical license revoked
That has to be there to manifest the value of human. 👍
Let us know which company it is. & send they ass to jail forever
Throw them in jail and I mean the shit house like Menard That will stop that bullshit fast
I am seeing probation in their future. Now selling a couple of blunts in south Chicago, throw the key away
They will buy their way out
Philippine President Duterte takes this all the time, with no overt side-effects. Apart from blood-lust, lust for his househelp, constant lying, and discoloration of his face that needed to be concealed with make-up.
Dirty MF😡
6 months probation...
Yay capitalism
Damn immigrants... amirite, realDonaldTrump?!
salrashed
A Doctor 👨⚕️ A Human •••• Bribe ! Makes Animals ☠️😭☠️
corybarlog shit...THE ANTI VAXERS WERE RIGHT
Swapbreh So we’re not gonna name the company or the doctors but we publicize every shooters name like he won an award
Simply disgusting. Lock them up.
😤😤😤 SHAMEFUL 😤😤😤
The worst
I predict not a single day of jail time for any of them.
Who watches the watchers
Good! About time! Get after all these scumbags.
Much worse than drug dealers.
Dishonest MD's indeed- They are the real criminals-
LoveForAll24 OT but Sackler Family makers of Oxy looks ready to pop too.
Score +1 for the public welfare. Keep'em coming, Feds DMAnews1
genecollier They better be put away. They risked killing people for profit. The doctors that went along with it too. I am tired of burying friends because of these unscrupulous people. I have buried over 40 friends and fam because of this scourge!
In China they would all be executed.
Yet people still say marijuana is the worst thing in the world. What’s worse prescription drugs or pot?
That line at the Kaiser pharmacy is really long
What about the doctors. That has to be the most egregious breach of trust imaginable. You have to be able to trust your doctor 1000%.
FUCKING BRAVO!
That is just evil to do to patients. Every MD involved should have their licenses permanently revoked and they should never be allowed to be a legal doctor again.
Wait! Did justice actually h a p p e n?!
Pharma companies are the worst. It's all about greed & they don't care about the patients. They push their reps. to meet impossible $$$ sales, ... & there are reps. that are greedy themselves. Awful!!!
Shocker. Our for profit healthcare sucks.
And they’ll pay a fine and do community service. Won’t see the inside of a prison.
JayDubcity16 Life in prison.
Give them a (large) dose of their own medicine, and let them rot in a back alley... 😡
More of this.
Now, thanks to the CDC and DEA, we’re going to need to bribe doctors to prescribe it to patients that NEED it. ViolationofaNation
Let’s go after the politicians who are in bed with big pharma next. Baby steps.
About time 👍
Dig a hole. Throw them in it. Fill with concrete.
Fry’em! The Opiod epidemic is not a mistake - when Big Pharma produces millions of pills more than America needs they are creating, and supplying, a Black Market.
It's MD's like this who make Good MDs look bad. Nevada under go's the strictest of Opiod policies. Personal favors were probably pulled to get people these. Sickening. Hurting ChronicPain patients DEA Database & Contracts. Work. Those MDs chose ways to dodge regulations
Dûh, greed is a survival mechanism in the U S. That’s why you’re the richest shithole in the world.
Very scary world out there!
Absolutely terrible, I see what opioids do to people daily.
They should be taken to court and brought to law
This is one huge reason I’m pulling for Bernie; nobody is as serious about taking on big pharma like him. KillerMike shaunking
They should arrest and charge the doctors as drug pushers.
Disgraceful
Ok this is common practice for all pharma reps ...they all need to go to jail
The entire health system corruption and greed is the reason the US has the highest costs for healthcare. A simple doctor visit is double the price than in most countries.
Hopefully this is just the first of many convictions in the U.S.'s corrupt health care industries, including doctors and hospitals. I'm not holding my breath, though.
All pharma companies do this. What’s new? 🙄
It's a start.
Their punishment should be blindfold them & put them in a room filled with fentanyl & let them try to feel their way out.
TRUE! My old co-worked said she worked for a pharma corp who paid her to go to medical offices & push a particular drug and pay the doctor a “fee” & provide tons of supplies like notepads 📝 (advertising) that you get when the doctor writes that prescription on & ink pens 🖊 too
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻Keep em coming - there’s plenty more of them wearing suits & ties - no different than street dealers
Indict the vast criminal empire aka GOP on federal racketeering RICO charges!
What we need is less government regulations so that this stuff doesn’t.... Oh, wait.
This is not a new case it’s happening every day in this country. Is all creed. Make money and don’t care if innocent people dies.
This reminds of the show where you and Ames got that evil lady about the poison toothpaste. Remember those kids died.
Unbelievable......😡
Hope the doctors are sentenced to death
What do you think the sentencing will be? My guess: less than some weed dealers. 🇺🇸
big pharma, politicians/lobbyist, doctors ---- collective effort !!! Good money making scheme at the expense of average american.
is it new news
Bet they do no time
As if we aren’t all aware that this happens regularly.
... to people who didn't need it ? this is insanity !
Throw away the key for all involved in this.
Probably get a nice fine.
Creating addicts. That what drug dealers do.
I’m sure they’ll get a life sentence to house arrest in a multimillion-dollar penthouse
You should put the company name in the title. Shame them.
And what about the doctors?
This kind of crap has been going on for years