Q&A: Deadly opioid crisis sparks lawsuits across the US

The first judgment is expected Monday in a lawsuit from a state government seeking to hold a drug company accountable for a U.S. opioid crisis that has ripped apart lives and communities. More trials and legal settlements are likely to follow the ruling in Oklahoma as the nation looks for answers and solutions to a... Read More

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Opioids

August 26, 2019

Oklahoma judge to deliver judgment in state’s opioid lawsuit

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge is expected to rule Monday in the first state case to go to trial accusing an opioid drugmaker of being responsible for the devastating consequences arising from addiction to the powerful painkillers. Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman is scheduled to deliver his judgment in open court at... Read More

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Opioids

August 22, 2019

Duo to push opioid settlement toward hospitals

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — West Virginia University President Gordon Gee and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich are creating a nonprofit that will fight to steer cash from any national opioid settlement to hospitals, rather than to local and state governments already sparring for control of the dollars. Gee and Kasich say Citizens for Effective Opioid... Read More

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Gordon Gee, John Kasich, Opioids

August 20, 2019

California smuggler of erectile dysfunction drug gets prison

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man who smuggled $11 million worth of erectile dysfunction drugs into the U.S. from China has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for conspiracy and smuggling contraband. Prosecutors say the drugs sold by 41-year-old John Lee of Walnut were dangerous black-market creations falsely advertised... Read More

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John Lee

August 19, 2019

California man convicted of torture of pot dispensary owner

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A California man who previously escaped from jail and was on the run for a week was convicted Friday of kidnapping and torturing a marijuana dispensary owner who he mistakenly believed had buried large sums of money in the desert. A jury in Newport Beach found Hossein Nayeri, 40, guilty... Read More

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Hossein Nayeri

August 16, 2019

Coroner: Gunman had drugs in system during firefight

CINCINNATI (AP) — The gunman in Dayton who killed nine people had cocaine, an antidepressant and alcohol in his system during the mass shooting, and was cut down by a barrage of at least two dozen police bullets that penetrated gaps in his body armor, a coroner said Thursday. Montgomery County coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger... Read More

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Connor Betts

August 13, 2019

Trial opens for Utah man accused in major opioid ring

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Stacks of potentially deadly fentanyl-laced pills sealed inside plastic tubs were displayed Monday on a table in a Salt Lake City courtroom, a haul that prosecutors say amounted to a tiny portion of the opioids shipped all over the U.S. as part of a multi-million dollar operation accused in at... Read More

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Aaron Shamo

August 12, 2019

Alleged online opioid drug kingpin to stand trial in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As America’s opioid crisis spiraled into a fentanyl epidemic, prosecutors say one young Utah man made himself a drug kingpin by creating counterfeit prescription painkillers laced with the deadly drug and mailing them to homes across the United States. Former Eagle Scout Aaron Shamo, 29, will stand trial beginning Monday... Read More

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Opioids

August 9, 2019

Region hit hard by opioids embraces jail-based treatment

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — As western Massachusetts struggles with a dramatic spike in fatal overdoses, officials are embracing a controversial solution: sending men who have not committed any crimes to jails and prisons for court-ordered addiction treatment. Hampden County Sheriff Thomas Cocchi has designated a wing of his jail for the treatment of men civilly... Read More

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Opioids

August 6, 2019

Feds: ‘El Chapo’ associate asked street gang to beat witness

CHICAGO (AP) — A drug trafficker and close friend of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s sons offered $25,000 to members of Chicago’s Four Corner Hustlers street gang to severely beat another trafficker cooperating with prosecutors, government witnesses said Monday. The testimony came at the sentencing hearing in Chicago federal court of Jesus Raul... Read More

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El Chapo

August 1, 2019

Billionaire, friend taking plea deal in Las Vegas drug case

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A California technology billionaire and crime victim rights advocate and a friend are taking a plea deal sparing them prison time in a Las Vegas Strip hotel room drug case, their lawyers and a prosecutor told a judge on Wednesday. Henry T. Nicholas III and co-defendant Ashley Christine Fargo will enter... Read More

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Henry T. Nicholas III

August 1, 2019

Arizona asks for US Supreme Court involvement in opioid case

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s attorney general on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to force the Sackler family, which owns OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma, to return billions of dollars they took out of the company. The court filing marks the first time the high court has been asked to weigh in directly on the nation’s opioid... Read More

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Opioids, Purdue

July 29, 2019

Big question in opioid suits: How to divide any settlement

The roughly 2,000 state and local governments suing the drug industry over the deadly opioid crisis have yet to see any verdicts or reach any big national settlements but are already tussling with each other over how to divide any money they collect. The reason: Some of them want to avoid what happened 20 years... Read More

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Opioids

July 26, 2019

2 sentenced for trying to smuggle cocaine through airport

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Two Jamaican men have received prison time in separate cases for trying to smuggle cocaine through North Carolina in their suitcases. Federal prosecutors said in a news release that Keshon Kevino Hawthorne flew into Charlotte on his way to New York with cocaine hidden in two suitcases last year. He received... Read More

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Q&A: Deadly opioid crisis sparks lawsuits across the US

Oklahoma judge to deliver judgment in state’s opioid lawsuit

Duo to push opioid settlement toward hospitals

California smuggler of erectile dysfunction drug gets prison

California man convicted of torture of pot dispensary owner

Coroner: Gunman had drugs in system during firefight

Trial opens for Utah man accused in major opioid ring

Alleged online opioid drug kingpin to stand trial in Utah

Region hit hard by opioids embraces jail-based treatment

Feds: ‘El Chapo’ associate asked street gang to beat witness

Billionaire, friend taking plea deal in Las Vegas drug case

Arizona asks for US Supreme Court involvement in opioid case

Big question in opioid suits: How to divide any settlement

2 sentenced for trying to smuggle cocaine through airport

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