A new study on prescription opioid use in the United States finds that while dosages and amounts are dropping, longer-term prescriptions and prescriptions lasting longer than 30 days are rising. And Americans continue dying.A Virginia pharmaceutical company was charged Tuesday in a billion-dollar marketing fraud scheme aimed at deceiving opioid addicts and health care providers, who prosecutors say were duped in a plot aimed at wildly boosting prescriptions and overzealous selling.
A federal grand jury indicted the London-based company on numerous charges including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and healthcare fraud.In a written statement, Indivior said it was"extremely disappointed" by the Justice Department's action, calling the allegations"wholly unsupported by either the facts or the law."
In an email exchange, which was copied to Indivior's medical director, one manager allegedly told another:"It takes only a short time perusing the to realize that we have some serious breaches … along with very careless and clinically unwarranted prescribing behaviors.” "Indivior continued to include physicians it knew were issuing careless, clinically unwarranted opioid prescriptions" as part of the telephone help line and other advocacy programs, prosecutors said.
Build a wall?
So many make so much off suffering and pain. From the dealers to the cops, the courts, the hospitals, rehabs, and the morticians. Heartbreaking
Classic “Patient Brokering”. So glad Florida cracked down on this. Big Pharma is one of the driving forces behind the Opioid Crisis 🙄.
get them hooked on pills then call them to offer them a more addictive 'cure'
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