Pharmaceutical Companies and PBMs Helped to Create Our Opioid Crisis

I have blogged previously about the role of PBMs in shipping drugs to retail drug stores that placed suspiciously high drug orders (see:Drug Distributor McKesson Pays Record Penalty For Suspicious Opioid Orders). The role of the Sackler family, owners ofPurdue Pharma, in aggressively pushing Oxycontin is also now coming to light (see:The Sackler Family: best known for philanthropy, they made billions promoting Oxycontin;Report: Stamford company confirms DOJ probe). Let's face facts. You can't have a country-wide epidemic of prescription drugs without the connivance of some of the major corporations. Some of these executives need to spend some time in jail for the harm that they have done to the country. Some of this is already happening as described in a recent article (see:Founder and Owner of Pharmaceutical Company Insys Arrested and Charged with Racketeering). Below is an excerpt from it:The founder and majority owner ofInsys Therapeutics...., was arrested...and charged with leading a nationwide conspiracy to profit by using bribes and fraud to cause the illegal distribution of a Fentanyl spray intended for cancer patients experiencing breakthrough pain. John N. Kapoor, 74, of Phoenix, Ariz., a current member of the Board of Directors of Insys, was arrested ...in Arizona and charged with RICO conspiracy, as well as other felonies, including conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Law....The superseding indictment.....
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