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There may never be true justice for the countless American families who have suffered in the opioid addiction epidemic—a crisis for which the medical industry itself carries plenty of blame. But one of the key figures accused of contributing to the crisis faced a reckoning on Thursday.

John Kapoor, founder of Insys Therapeutics, was found guilty of racketeering (along with four co-defendants) by a Boston jury. Insys had been accused of bribing doctors to prescribe the powerful painkiller fentanyl and lying to insurance companies.

The conviction is a milestone in pharmaceutical prosecution—the first instance of major drug company executives taking a legal hit over their firms’ alleged tactics to sell addictive pain medication by any means possible, legal or otherwise.

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