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Physician’s assistant guilty in Subsys kickbacks case – News – seacoastonline.com
Elizabeth Dinan edinan@seacoastonline.com @DinanElizabeth CONCORD A federal jury on Tuesday found a former physician's assistant "guilty of participating in a scheme in which he received kickbacks in exchange for prescribing a powerful fentanyl spray to patients in violation of federal law," announced U.S....
18 December, 2018
New Hampshire physician assistant guilty of Insys opioid kickback scheme
(Reuters) - A former physician assistant in New Hampshire was convicted on Tuesday of charges that he accepted nearly $50,000 in kickbacks from Insys Therapeutics Inc (INSY.O) in exchange for prescribing its addictive fentanyl spray. FILE PHOTO: Christopher Clough, a former physician assistant, arrives at...
18 December, 2018
Search for wanted woman leads to fentanyl, meth seizure
Amy Gambill(Photo: Photo provided)WINCHESTER, Ind. – Police looking for a Randolph County woman who was the target of arrest warrants found her – along with fentanyl and meth, and a new co-defendant.Union City police last week went to a home in the 700 block of...
18 December, 2018
Rise in suicides, opioid overdoses leads to drop in life expectancy across US
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KGTV) - As deaths in the US from suicide and opioid overdose skyrocket, San Diego health leaders have plans already in action to fight the rising trend."People are living in a lot of pain," says Dana Richardson, who oversees the Community Health...
18 December, 2018
Dealer Jailed For Selling Fatal Dose Of Fentanyl: Bucks Co. DA
BUCKS COUNTY, PA — A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to up to 30 years in state prison for selling the fentanyl that killed a man in Bucks County last year. William Frank Brennan, 21, pleaded guilty in November to charges...
18 December, 2018
‘A few dollars … for human life’: Fentanyl dealer who sold fatal dose sentenced
A Bucks County man will spend at least a decade, and up to 30 years, in state prison for selling the fentanyl that killed a 23-year-old then continuing to sell the powerful opioid painkiller.William Frank Brennan, 21,...
18 December, 2018
Inslee proposes $30M in budget to address opioid crisis in Washington
The governor says his proposed budget includes alternative treatments for some chronic pain conditions and plans to distribute fentanyl testing kits to slow the rate of overdoses Gov. Jay Inslee proposed the state spend $30 million to help combat the...
18 December, 2018
Man sentenced in overdose death case | News, Sports, Jobs
PARKERSBURG — The first person convicted in Wood County under a new state law specifically targeting the dealers of drugs that cause fatal overdoses was sentenced Monday to prison, where he will serve at least five years.Christopher Masten, 29, in custody at the North Central...
18 December, 2018
John Kapoor Is No Longer A Fentanyl Billionaire
John Kapoor made his bones in part by his investments in Insys Therapeutics, for which manufacturing fentanyl was a big part of daily business. As a result of his highly criticized business practices, he has for the last five years been referred to as a...
18 December, 2018