Health

8000 People Died After Taking Subsys Opioid Spray and the Manufacturer Was Sentenced to 5.5 years in Prison for Bribing Doctors to Overprescribe the Deadly Drug

January 30, 2020 ZeroHedge and AARP 0

Kapoor was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for encouraging doctors to prescribe his drug “off-label” for ordinary chronic pain, while the drug was approved only for advanced cancer patients. An AARP review of FDA documents found that more than 8,100 people have died since 2012 while taking Subsys.