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Opioid manufacturing exec heads to prison

The highest-ranking drug company executive convicted in the opioid crisis is headed to prison, but the sentence is not harsh enough for some who say he got away with murder. A judge sentenced Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor to five and a half years for his role in bribing doctors to prescribe the powerful painkiller Subsys. Anna Werner speaks to the mother of an overdose victim who was at the sentencing.
Jan 24, 2020 (03:45)
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