In­di­v­ior's Shaun Thax­ter heads to prison, join­ing In­sys' John Kapoor among jailed opi­oid ex­ecs

Up­date: An ear­li­er ver­sion of this ar­ti­cle misiden­ti­fied the jailed In­sys CEO. For­mer CEO John Kapoor was sen­tenced to 5.5 years in prison in Jan­u­ary. End­points News re­grets the er­ror.

The Jus­tice De­part­ment’s years-long bat­tle with In­di­v­ior has ar­rived at a rare place: the jail­ing of a phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal ex­ec­u­tive.

A US dis­trict court sen­tenced long-run­ning In­di­v­ior CEO Shaun Thax­ter to 6 months in fed­er­al prison for his role in com­pa­ny ef­forts to mis­lead a ma­jor health­care provider about the safe­ty and abus­abil­i­ty of their opi­oid ad­dic­tion drug Sub­ox­one, which gen­er­at­ed bil­lions in rev­enue over the last decade. Thax­ter joins for­mer In­sys CEO John Kapoor as one of the on­ly two ex­ec­u­tives to face prison time for their roles in the opi­oid epi­dem­ic.

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