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The Opioid Epidemic’s First Corporate Casualty

Natural Born Killers –

December 4, 2018 – It didn’t sell well, at least at first. That changed, federal prosecutors have alleged, when Kapoor and other executives essentially bribed doctors to prescribe it for everything from chronic pain to back aches, and defrauded insurance providers who were reluctant to approve prescriptions for off-label use. In some cases, doctors were paid more than $200,000, prosecutors said at the Nov. 28 hearing where Burlakoff pleaded guilty.

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