A Drug Maker Uses Doctors With Troubled Pasts to Promote a Painkiller (Pharmalot Blog)
An analysis of payments to physicians by Insys Therapeutics, a small drug maker that markets a powerful, but highly restricted painkiller, found that five of the 20 doctors who received the most money recently faced legal or disciplinary action, The New York Times writes. And some of the physicians had allegedly prescribed painkillers inappropriately. Blogger Ed Silverman explains.