Billionaire Insys founder charged in U.S. opioid bribe case

Yahoo, 2017: "The billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc was arrested on Thursday on U.S. charges he participated in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe a fentanyl-based cancer pain drug, marking a step by authorities to fight the opioid epidemic. John Kapoor, Insys' majority shareholder who stepped... The charges marked a major escalation of the ongoing investigations of Insys related to Subsys, an under-the-tongue spray that contains fentanyl, a highly addictive synthetic opioid. They came as U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the U.S. opioid crisis a public health crisis.

Yahoo, 2017: "The billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc was arrested on Thursday on U.S. charges he participated in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe a fentanyl-based cancer pain drug, marking a step by authorities to fight the opioid epidemic. John Kapoor, Insys' majority shareholder who stepped... The charges marked a major escalation of the ongoing investigations of Insys related to Subsys, an under-the-tongue spray that contains fentanyl, a highly addictive synthetic opioid. They came as U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the U.S. opioid crisis a public health crisis.