Dr. Judson Somerville, a pain specialist in Laredo, Texas, received $67,000 in speaking fees, travel and meals in 2013 to promote a powerful and addictive painkiller called Subsys, according to the federal Open Payments database. But while Insys Therapeutics, the Arizona company that makes the product, was paying Somerville to promote it, he was under investigation by the Texas Medical Board.
Using doctors with troubled pasts to market a painkiller
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