The tide is turning: Big Pharma billionaire arrested, charged with conspiracy and
bribery of doctors October 28, 2017 by Mike Adams
Drug overdoses led to 64,070 deaths in 2016,
which is more than the amount of American
lives lost in the entire Vietnam War.
(Natural News) I almost never thought I’d see
the day when a Big Pharma founder and
owner was finally arrested for running a
criminal drug cartel, but that day has arrived.
“Federal authorities arrested the billionaire
founder and owner of Insys Therapeutics
Thursday on charges of bribing doctors and
pain clinics into prescribing the company’s
fentanyl product to their patients,” reports the
Daily Caller News Foundation, one of the best
sources of real journalism in America today.
Addictive drugs that include opioids, we now
know, are claiming over 64,000 lives a year
in the United States alone.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged
John Kapoor, 74, and seven other current and
former executives at the pharmaceutical
company, racketeering, and leading a national
conspiracy through bribery and fraud to
coerce the illegal distribution of the
company’s fentanyl spray, which is intended
for use as a pain killer by cancer patients.
The company’s stock prices fell more than 20
percent following the arrests, according to the
New York Post.
Kapoor stepped down as the company’s CEO
in January amid ongoing federal probes into
their Subsys product, a pain-relieving spray
that contains fentanyl, a highly-addictive
synthetic opioid. Fentanyl is more than 50
times stronger than morphine, and ingesting
just two milligrams is enough to cause an
adult to fatally overdose.
The series of arrests came just hours after
President Donald Trump officially declared
the country’s opioid epidemic a national
emergency.
As the opioid crisis has developed, more and
more states have begun holding doctors and
opioid manufacturers accountable for over-
prescribing and over-producing the highly-
addictive painkillers.
“We will be bringing some major lawsuits
against people and companies that are hurting
our people,” Trump said Thursday.
“More than 20,000 Americans died of
synthetic opioid overdoses last year, and
millions are addicted to opioids, and yet some
medical professionals would rather take
advantage of the addicts than try to help
them,” Attorne