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A 76-year-old Indian-origin head of a US pharmaceutical major has become the first top executive of a drugmaker to be convicted of bribing doctors in America to prescribe addictive painkillers, fuelling a national opioid crisis which has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people over two decades.

The founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc became the highest-ranking pharmaceutical executive to be convicted in a case tied to the US opioid crisis, when he and four colleagues were found guilty of participating in a scheme to bribe doctors

Physician Paul Madison is suspected of taking more than $70,000 in bribes from a drug company to churn out prescriptions for its highly addictive fentanyl spray. But on Tuesday, prosecutors wanted jurors to focus more on what, exactly, the pain management specialist was doing at "Chicago's sexiest nightclub" with an exotic dancer-turned-pharmaceuti...

The first prosecution of a pharmaceutical company chief executive tied to opioid overdoses begins this week, when Insys Therapeutics Inc.'s John Kapoor goes on trial. The fallout may jolt an industry facing steep penalties for its own role in the crisis.

Indian-American pharmaceutical billionaire John Kapoor, accused of bribing doctors in the US to over-prescribe a powerful opioid to patients, has pleaded not guilty and asked the court to remove his GPS monitoring bracelet.

A 74-year-old Indian-American pharmaceutical billionaire was today charged with leading a nationwide conspiracy in the US by bribing doctors to over-prescribe a powerful opioid to patients and committing fraud on insurance firms for profit.

An Indian-American billionaire founder of a pharmaceutical company was arrested today in the US for allegedly leading a nationwide conspiracy to bribe doctors to prescribe a powerful opioid to patients who don't need it.

A 76-year-old Indian-origin head of a US pharmaceutical major has become the first top executive of a drugmaker to be convicted of bribing doctors in America to prescribe addictive painkillers, fuelling a national opioid crisis which has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people over two decades.

The founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc became the highest-ranking pharmaceutical executive to be convicted in a case tied to the US opioid crisis, when he and four colleagues were found guilty of participating in a scheme to bribe doctors

Physician Paul Madison is suspected of taking more than $70,000 in bribes from a drug company to churn out prescriptions for its highly addictive fentanyl spray. But on Tuesday, prosecutors wanted jurors to focus more on what, exactly, the pain management specialist was doing at "Chicago's sexiest nightclub" with an exotic dancer-turned-pharmaceuti...

The first prosecution of a pharmaceutical company chief executive tied to opioid overdoses begins this week, when Insys Therapeutics Inc.'s John Kapoor goes on trial. The fallout may jolt an industry facing steep penalties for its own role in the crisis.

Indian-American pharmaceutical billionaire John Kapoor, accused of bribing doctors in the US to over-prescribe a powerful opioid to patients, has pleaded not guilty and asked the court to remove his GPS monitoring bracelet.

A 74-year-old Indian-American pharmaceutical billionaire was today charged with leading a nationwide conspiracy in the US by bribing doctors to over-prescribe a powerful opioid to patients and committing fraud on insurance firms for profit.

An Indian-American billionaire founder of a pharmaceutical company was arrested today in the US for allegedly leading a nationwide conspiracy to bribe doctors to prescribe a powerful opioid to patients who don't need it.