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Boston: Employees at a drug company accused of bribing doctors rapped and danced around a life-size bottle of their highly addictive fentanyl spray in a video meant to motivate sales representa­tives into getting patients on higher doses. The video was shown to jurors last week in the closely watched trial in Boston of Insys Therapeuti­cs Inc. founder John Kapoor and four other former executives charged with scheming to pay doctors bribes in exchange for prescripti­ons of the drug meant for cancer patients with severe pain. All have denied wrongdoing. Prosecutor­s say the video was shown at a 2015 meeting to fire up employees.

 ??  ?? A still image from the 2015 video. INSYS THERAPEUTI­CS/U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE VIA AP
A still image from the 2015 video. INSYS THERAPEUTI­CS/U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE VIA AP

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