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Mom of overdose victim says drug company founder destroyed lives

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.
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