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The former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to participating in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe a powerful opioid medication in order to boost its sales, U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday. Michael Babich, …

New data from the Maryland Department of State and Mental Hygiene shows that overdose deaths from the synthetic opioid fenantyl have increased 83 percent since last year. Media outlets report that the latest data, released June 9, showed 340 fenantyl-related …