Why Jury’s Opioid Verdict Against Pharmacy Chains May Not Survive Appeal November 30, 2021 By Jef Feeley While a Cleveland jury concluded Walmart Inc., CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. exacerbated Ohio’s opioid epidemic with...
Publicis Loses Bid to Escape Massachusetts Opioid Marketing Lawsuit November 1, 2021 By Nate Raymond A unit of French advertising company Publicis Groupe SA on Friday lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by Massachusetts’...
Drug Overdose Deaths Hit Record 93,000 During 2020 Pandemic July 16, 2021 By Mike Stobbe Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported...
Opioid Makers, Distributors Go on Trial in New York July 1, 2021 A landmark trial targeting multiple opioid manufacturers and distributors opened Tuesday with lawyers for the government accusing the companies of...
U.S. Drug Enforcer Testimony Cites ‘Systemic Failure’ in Monitoring by Opioid Distributors June 11, 2021 A retired high-ranking official with the Drug Enforcement Administration has testified that three large opioid distributors had a “systematic failure”...
Massachusetts Sues Marketing Firm for Role in Opioid Crisis May 11, 2021 Massachusetts’ top prosecutor on Thursday sued a global marketing company that she alleges played a role in fueling the opioid...
Purdue Pharma’s Sacklers Increase Opioid Settlement Offer to $4.3B: Reuters March 12, 2021 By Mike Spector Members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma LP have offered roughly $4.3 billion to resolve sprawling opioid litigation,...
Study Shows Need for Drug Programs for Construction Workers at Risk October 30, 2019 Construction workers are more likely to use drugs than workers in other professions, finds a study by the Center for...
Settling Opioid Suits Probably Won’t End the Crisis: Viewpoint October 21, 2019 By Joe Nocera, Bloomberg Opinion Imagine you’re the chief executive officer of a large pharmaceutical corporation with an important drug that’s under attack. More than...
Actuaries Estimate Four Years of Opioid Crisis Cost Economy $631 Billion October 17, 2019 The opioid epidemic cost the U.S. economy at least $631 billion from 2015 to 2018, according to a Society of...