Indivior Must Disband Suboxone Sales Force, Implement Executive Pay Recoupment Program

$600m settlement with DOJ over Suboxone marketing includes corporate integrity agreement and exclusion of subsidiary from government health programs. Indivior also agrees to pay $10m to FTC and be enjoined from future antitrust violations.

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A year after Indivior plc's former parent Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC reached a $1.4bn settlement with the US Department of Justice, Indivior has agreed to pay $600m more to resolve additional criminal and civil liability over the marketing of its opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone Film (buprenorphine/naloxone).

This time the company agreed to disband its Suboxone sales force and entered into a corporate integrity agreement (CIA) requiring it to implement

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