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Doctor Gets 2 Years in Prison for Taking Pharmaceutical Company’s Bribes

A Colorado physician who owned and operated a rehab facility was sentenced to two years in prison for taking $344,000 in bribes or “kickbacks” from a pharmaceutical company while prescribing its fentanyl-based spray product to drug rehab patients.

CBS 4 Denver reports that Dr. Jeffrey Kesten, 61, was sentenced Feb. 28 to 24 months in federal prison by a Denver federal judge.

According to the grand jury’s indictment, Kesten was charged for conspiring with employees of Insys Therapeutics, a company accused of playing a role in the opioid epidemic, and supplying rehab patients with Subsys, a powerful sublingual fentanyl-based spray originally used to treat pain in cancer patients.

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