In medical news, the billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics has become the highest-ranking pharmaceutical executive to be convicted in a case linked to the U.S. opioid epidemic. A federal jury in Boston convicted John Kapoor and four other colleagues of bribing doctors to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray to patients who didn’t need it. One of the defendants allegedly gave a lap dance to a doctor at a company event in order to persuade him to prescribe the drug. They face up to 20 years in prison