Opioid company executives found guilty of racketeering

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Opioid company executives found guilty of racketeering
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Five executives of a pharmaceutical company were found guilty on federal racketeering charges for bribing doctors to prescribe a version of the synthetic opioid fentanyl to people who didn't need it

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.

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