Hang ’em high.
There is no getting around this age-old imagery. Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and his former gang members at the disgraced drug maker should get the maximum sentences for their shameful roles in helping to foment an opioid crisis that has claimed countless lives and roiled an entire nation.
For years, Insys executives pressured their sales team to bribe doctors into writing more prescriptions for its Subsys painkiller, which contains fentanyl, a powerful and addictive opioid. Doctors were given free meals, cash, and, sometimes, dark chocolate bars. Then there was the ex-stripper who was hired as a regional sales manager and gave one doctor a motivational lap dance.
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