Sarasota-area doctor convicted of taking bribes to prescribe opioids

A federal jury has convicted the 59-year-old doctor of collecting “speaking fees” from sham pharmaceutical company events.

By Louis Llovio
| 6:34 p.m. May 24, 2022
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Manatee-Sarasota

A Sarasota-area doctor has been found guilty of accepting bribes to prescribe a spray containing the highly addictive, and sometimes fatal, opioid fentanyl.

Dr. Steven Chun, 59, was convicted, along with a drug company representative from Tampa, for soliciting and accepting kickbacks and bribes in return for writing prescriptions for the pain killer Subsys, often when not medically necessary.