The manufacturer of a potent fentanyl spray, Subsys, appears to be shutting down operations after filing for bankruptcy last summer and years of litigation.
Insys Therapeutics agreed to vacate its Chandler headquarters by Dec. 31, 2019 and according to bankruptcy filings, any property belonging to debtors that remain after Dec. 31...Arizona News
Last week, a federal jury found Arizona billionaire John Kapoor and four other executives of Insys Therapeutics guilty of conspiring to bribe doctors to inflate sales for the pain drug Subsys, an opioid approved to treat breakthrough cancer pain that's 100 times stronger than morphine.
Kapoor, the founder and former CEO of Insys...Arizona News
Governor Doug Ducey proposes to limit opioid prescriptions to no more than five days, Rep. Jay Lawrence wants to make it illegal for any state or local government or agency to limit the amount of regulated painkillers that physicians can prescribe at any one time.
State health Director Cara Christ said earlier this year she would...Arizona News
“As the number of opioid overdoses and deaths increase at an alarming rate, we must take action," said Ducey.
Data from the Arizona Department of Health Services shows in 2016, 790 Arizonans died from opioid overdoses - an average of more than two people per day. The trend shows an alarming increase of 74 percent over the past four...