{"id":22704,"date":"2019-05-03T19:41:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=22704"},"modified":"2019-05-03T21:07:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T21:07:52","slug":"john-kapoor-opioid-epidemic-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/john-kapoor-opioid-epidemic-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian-origin Billionaire John Kapoor Convicted in a Case of USA\u2019s Opioid Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"
The United States recorded as many as 70,237 cases of drug overdose deaths in the year 2017.<\/strong> Unchecked intake of opioids is the main instrument having pushed the number of drug overdose deaths by 9% from 2016 to 2017 in the US. West Virginia, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Ohio, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Utah and Tennessee are the top 10 US states with drug overdose deaths, according to American Addiction Centers.<\/p>\n In a bizarre incidence of the US opioid crisis, Indian-origin John Kapoor, a billionaire pharmaceutical entrepreneur in Arizona, has been convicted of bribing doctors to unnecessarily prescribe addictive painkillers to patients, and thereby contributing towards the country\u2019s opioid epidemic. 75-year-old John Kapoor, the founder of Insys Therapeutics, was the fifth richest of Indian-origin billionaires in USA<\/span><\/a>, with net worth $1.8 billion, on Forbes’ 2018 list<\/p><\/blockquote>\n