dailycaller
Steve Birr
Vice Reporter
5:11 PM 02/02/2018
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http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/02/new-york-sues-fentanyl-maker/Officials in New York are suing a fentanyl manufacturer for knowingly flooding the state with the highly potent painkiller “at a time when the opioid epidemic was ravaging†the city.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed the lawsuit Thursday in the state supreme court against Insys Therapeutics, which produces a fentanyl based medication for cancer patients called Subsys, seeking to recoup roughly $75 million that officials argue was illegally earned. The complaint alleges Insys purposefully downplayed the risks of the drug, bribed doctors to unnecessarily prescribe it and lied to health care insurance companies to secure their authorization, reports Times Union.
Schneiderman also accuse Insys of “recklessly†encouraging doctors to prescribe Subsys for unapproved conditions.
