A Different Opioid Attack

5/20/19: On a daily basis the cost of opioid addiction makes headlines, as do pronouncements about addressing the crisis. An article by Amandeep S. Sidhu & T. Reed Stephens on FCA Update explains a case that defines a whole different approach... 

The authors review a first-of-its-kind DPA between the US DOJ and one of the largest wholesale pharmaceutical products distrbutors in the US. That’s fine for the company. Not so fine for two senior executives who face criminal charges for unlawful distribution of oxycodone and fentanyl and for conspiring to defraud the US DEA. The article focuses on the actions of the company’s former CEO and CCO...