by Marissel Descalzo | Jan 21, 2022 | Opioid, Opioid Indictment, Opioid Prosecutions, Prosecutions
Laurence Doud is charged with a conspiracy to violate the Controlled Substances Act – drug trafficking – in the Southern District of New York. Doud is not your typical narcotrafficker. He is the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. This is a novel prosecution...
by Marissel Descalzo | Jan 19, 2022 | Opioid, Opioid Prosecutions
John Kapoor, a former Insys Therapeutics executive, was convicted following a three-month trial. The executives in that case were charged with using a speaker program to funnel cash and other perks to doctors who wrote many Subsys prescriptions. Kapoor is seeking...
by sitemanager | Jun 6, 2019 | Opioid Prosecutions, Substance abuse
Complaint Against Chiropractor And Pain Management Clinics The United States Attorney in South Carolina has intervened in a False Claims Act case against a chiropractor, his network of pain management clinics, and urine drug testing laboratories. There are three...
by sitemanager | Apr 12, 2019 | Opioid Prosecutions
Opioid Fraud Case It has been a big week health care fraud news. On Tuesday, a federal grand jury sitting in Virginia indicted Indivior, Inc. and Indivior PLC for engaging in a scheme to increase prescriptions of Suboxone Film, an opioid drug used in the treatment of...
by sitemanager | Mar 1, 2019 | Data mining, Indictment, Opioid Prosecutions
Litigation Over Release Of Data On Opiod Cases Litigation over release of data in the opioid litigation gives a glimpse at the volumes of information available to the Department of Justice in health care fraud cases. Judge Dan Aaron Polster of the Northern...
by sitemanager | Jan 7, 2019 | Doctor Indictment, Medical Necessity, Opioid Prosecutions
Temporary Restraining Orders Against Doctors Allegedly Prescribing Opioids Illegally Temporary restraining orders—a first-of-its-kind against doctors allegedly prescribing opioids illegally under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)—were served this week that forbid...