Counties: Drug companies shipped suspicious opioid orders

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Companies that make and distribute opioids didn’t abide by a requirement that they refuse to ship orders of the powerful prescription painkillers when they deemed them suspicious, helping fuel a national addiction and overdose crisis, two Ohio counties said in a legal filing Friday. Until now, lawyers representing Cuyahoga and Summit... Read More

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Opioids

July 19, 2019

Drug company, 4 people indicted in US painkiller probe

CINCINNATI (AP) — A wholesale drug distributor linked to the flood of opioids into Appalachia and two of its former executives were charged with conspiring to illegally distribute millions of painkiller pills, federal authorities said Thursday. The former executives of Ohio-based Miami-Luken — the president and compliance officer — along with two pharmacists in West... Read More

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Opioids

July 17, 2019

California pot seller asks court to void county delivery ban

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another legal fight is underway over home marijuana delivery in California. A licensed cannabis company has sued Santa Cruz County, claiming that it’s violating state law by prohibiting deliveries from out-of-county retailers into a swath of unincorporated areas. The East of Eden Cannabis Co. lawsuit filed Friday in Superior Court in... Read More

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Eden Cannabis Co.

July 17, 2019

Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ faces sentencing in US case

NEW YORK (AP) — Will the notorious Mexican drug lord known as “El Chapo” go quietly? For Joaquin Guzman, that’s the biggest question at his sentencing in New York City on Wednesday. The highly-anticipated hearing could be his last chance to speak publicly before spending the rest of his life behind bars at a maximum... Read More

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El Chapo

July 17, 2019

Federal data shows opioid shipments ballooned as crisis grew

CLEVELAND (AP) — Newly released federal data shows how drugmakers and distributors increased shipments of opioid painkillers across the U.S. as the nation’s addiction crisis accelerated from 2006 to 2012. The data, released this week by a federal court in Ohio as part of a far-reaching opioids case, shows that companies distributed 8.4 billion hydrocodone... Read More

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Opioids

July 16, 2019

Meek Mill seeks new trial, judge after decade-long probation

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lawyers for Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill will ask an appeals court Tuesday to overturn a 2008 drug and gun conviction that’s kept the Philadelphia rapper on probation for a decade. The city judge who oversees the case and sent him to prison in 2017 on a parole violation has a grudge against... Read More

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Meek Mill

July 15, 2019

Closing arguments set in Oklahoma’s case against drugmakers

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Closing arguments are scheduled to begin in Oklahoma’s case against Johnson & Johnson alleging the consumer products giant and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state’s opioid crisis. Each side will have about two hours Monday to make their cases to Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman, who is expected to issue... Read More

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Johnson & Johnson, Opioids

July 4, 2019

Judge rejects Mexican drug lord El Chapo’s new trial bid

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge has rejected a request for a new trial by the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo. U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan said in a written ruling Wednesday that a “mountain range of evidence” introduced against Joaquin Guzman (hwah-KEEN’ goos-MAHN’) overcame his claims that the jury was... Read More

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El Chapo

June 27, 2019

Oklahoma nears end to case in trial against drug makers

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma is close to wrapping up its case at trial against Johnson & Johnson, alleging the consumer products giant and its subsidiaries helped fuel the deadly opioid crisis. Attorneys for the state on Wednesday continued questioning Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Director Terri White. Oklahoma alleges opioid... Read More

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Opioid, Purdue Pharma

June 12, 2019

Nebraska’s AG is lone holdout in pursuing opioid cases

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson has fought prescription opioid abuse through public education campaigns, worked with lawmakers to tighten prescribing practices and even demanded documents from the maker of OxyContin. He has said the overdose crisis is ravaging families. What Peterson hasn’t done is pursued a lawsuit seeking to hold any... Read More

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June 7, 2019

Drug company unit pleads guilty to opioid bribery scheme

BOSTON (AP) — A drug company subsidiary has pleaded guilty to fraud charges stemming from allegations that the manufacturer schemed to bribe doctors to prescribe its highly addictive fentanyl spray. The guilty plea entered in Boston federal court Friday by Insys Therapeutics’ operating unit is part of a settlement announced this week to resolve investigations... Read More

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Insys Therapeutics

June 6, 2019

Lawsuit: Drugmaker improperly used charity to pay kickbacks

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a pharmaceutical firm improperly used a charity to pay kickbacks that subsidized Medicare patients’ copayment obligations, allowing the firm to keep raising prices for the drug. The suit filed Wednesday claims the scheme was designed to enable Mallinckrodt to raise the price of Acthar from $50 to $32,000. The... Read More

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Mallinckrodt

June 4, 2019

More states sue opioid maker alleging deceptive marketing

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California, Hawaii, Maine and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits Monday against the maker of OxyContin and the company’s former president, alleging the firm falsely promoted the drug by downplaying the risk of addiction while it emerged as one of the most widely abused opioids in the U.S. The lawsuits were... Read More

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Opioid, Opioids

June 3, 2019

Frank Lucas, druglord portrayed in ‘American Gangster,’ dies

NEW YORK (AP) — Frank Lucas, the former Harlem drug kingpin whose life and lore inspired the 2007 movie “American Gangster,” has died, a relative said Friday. Lucas, who was 88, died Thursday in New Jersey, nephew Aldwan Lassiter said. Lucas had been in declining health, according to his former lawyer. Raised in North Carolina,... Read More

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Frank Lucas

Counties: Drug companies shipped suspicious opioid orders

Drug company, 4 people indicted in US painkiller probe

California pot seller asks court to void county delivery ban

Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ faces sentencing in US case

Federal data shows opioid shipments ballooned as crisis grew

Meek Mill seeks new trial, judge after decade-long probation

Closing arguments set in Oklahoma’s case against drugmakers

Judge rejects Mexican drug lord El Chapo’s new trial bid

Oklahoma nears end to case in trial against drug makers

Nebraska’s AG is lone holdout in pursuing opioid cases

Drug company unit pleads guilty to opioid bribery scheme

Lawsuit: Drugmaker improperly used charity to pay kickbacks

More states sue opioid maker alleging deceptive marketing

Frank Lucas, druglord portrayed in ‘American Gangster,’ dies

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