[Pharmwaste] Former execs charged w/ bribing drs to prescribe off-label fentanyl use

[Ed Gottlieb]

Big news: former execs (CEO, national sales director, & three other sale directors) charged w/ bribing drs to prescribe fentanyl for off-label uses

https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/08/insys-therapeutics-fentanyl-charges/

"Harold H. Shaw, the head of the Boston office of the FBI, said in a statement<https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/pharmaceutical-executives-charged-racketeering-scheme>. “In doing so, they contributed to the growing opioid epidemic and placed profit before patient safety.”

"Subsys [prescription version of fentanyl] is the only brand-name drug Insys sells. In 2011, the year before it hit the marketplace, Insys was operating at a loss with no reported revenue. Last year, company revenues were $330 million; it reported a profit of $58.5 million."

No mention of deaths that were likely caused by their actions.  Here is what I want to know:
What percent of the profit reaped from off-label prescribing will they be fined and will they serve any jail time?

Ed Gottlieb
Chair, Coalition for Safe Medication Disposal
Industrial Pretreatment Coordinator
Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility
525 3rd Street
Ithaca, NY  14850
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