King Pharmaceuticals Settles and One Columnist Writes that Such ...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Sat, 03/20/2010 - 15:46

Here we go again.  The latest settlement in the parade was made by the Alpharma subsidiary of King Pharmaceuticals, as reported by Reuters :

Alpharma Inc, a unit of King Pharmaceuticals (KG.N), has agreed to pay $42.5 million to resolve allegations that it gave kickbacks to doctors to prescribe the pain drug Kadian and misrepresented its safety and effectiveness , the Justice Department said on Tuesday.

Kadian, which is based on morphine [that is, a long-acting...

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