A warning has been issued in a North Carolina city after five people overdosed on heroin on two days.Two of those who overdosed died.Elizabeth City emergency officials believe the heroin could have been mixed with fentanyl or carfentanyl. Federal authorities say fentanyl is 30 times...
Insys founder John N. Kapoor, center, leaves the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on May 2, 2019. An opioid drugmaker whose former executives were convicted last month in a scheme to illegally influence doctors to prescribe its drug and that reached a nearly...
TAMPA — A federal judge has ordered a new trial for a man found guilty in March of selling a batch of fentanyl that caused a man to die of an overdose.Corey Damond Smith, 23, was supposed to be sentenced this month. He faced a...
Opioid maker Insys Therapeutics, Inc. (INSYS) has announced that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to address its legal liabilities and sell off all of its company assets. The company said it will continue operations under the supervision of the court as it pursues the...
Drug company Insys Therapeutics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday, days after its subsidiary pleaded guilty to fraud charges in an opioid bribery scheme and the drugmaker agreed to pay $225 million to the government. The Chandler, Ariz.,-based company said in a release it will continue...
A COLD-hearted mum showed no emotion after being found guilty of killing her baby by giving her a sippy cup laced with fentanyl. Prosecutors said Jhenea Pratt, 23, gave 17-month-old Charlette Napper-Talley the strong opioid painkiller so she could "relax and smoke marijuana". 5 A pink sippy...
Paloma Williams and her boyfriend rubbed the gun over one another for foreplayA man claims his girlfriend died when he accidentally shot her with a loaded gun during foreplay. Andrew Charles Shinault, 23, told investigators Paloma Williams, 24, was using the pistol for ‘sexual gratification and...
A box of the Fentanyl-based drug Subsys, made by Insys Therapeutics Inc, is seen in an undated photograph provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama. Handout/Reuters Drug maker Insys Therapeutics Inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...