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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May 29, 2019

Oklahoma attorney blames corporate greed for opioid crisis

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Corporate greed is responsible for an opioid crisis that has cost Oklahoma thousands of lives and will take billions of dollars to repair, the state’s attorney general told a judge Tuesday at the start of the nation’s first state trial against the companies accused of fueling the problem. Oklahoma Attorney General... Read More

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Opioids

May 28, 2019

Spotlight on Oklahoma for start of trial for opioid makers

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is poised to become the first state to go to trial in a lawsuit against the makers of pharmaceuticals blamed for contributing to the nation’s opioid crisis. Although several states have reached settlements with drugmakers, including Oklahoma’s agreements this year with OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma and Teva Pharmaceuticals, the trial set... Read More

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Opioids

May 16, 2019

5 states announce new suits over prescription opioids

CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) — Five state attorneys general have announced new lawsuits against the maker of OxyContin as they seek to hold the drug industry responsible for an opioid crisis. Filings were announced Thursday by officials in Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, West Virginia and Wisconsin. With the suits, 45 states are now taking legal action... Read More

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Opioids

May 14, 2019

Hard-hit Pennsylvania to sue drugmaker over opioid epidemic

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The attorney general of Pennsylvania says he’s filing a lawsuit accusing a pharmaceutical giant of fueling the opioid epidemic. Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office said it would announce details of the lawsuit Tuesday afternoon. Pennsylvania is one of the states hardest hit by opioid addiction. Shapiro’s office two years ago joined with... Read More

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Drugs, Opioids

April 24, 2019

Indictment: Ex-CEO ignored red flags as opioid crisis raged

NEW YORK (AP) — The pharmaceutical industry executive hit Tuesday with criminal charges stemming from the opioid crisis doesn’t have his name on a museum wing, and his company isn’t within earshot of Apple or anyone else on the Fortune 500. Even his $1.5 million paycheck was a paltry sum compared to his peers. Laurence... Read More

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Laurence Doud III, Opioid, Opioids

March 11, 2019

Oklahoma judge denies delay requests in opioid lawsuit

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge has denied a request by 13 pharmaceutical companies to delay the state’s lawsuit accusing them of fraudulently marketing drugs that have fueled the opioid crisis. The Oklahoman reports that Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman rejected the motion Friday and says “the wheels of justice will continue to... Read More

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Opioids

February 4, 2019

Family made billions on opioid as crisis raged, filing says

BOSTON (AP) — The family behind OxyContin raked in billions of dollars as it pushed to keep patients on the powerful painkiller longer despite evidence that the drug was helping to fuel the nation’s deadly opioid crisis, Massachusetts authorities allege in newly public court documents. While aggressively marketing OxyContin, the Sackler family also sought to... Read More

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Opioids

January 28, 2019

Drug firm founder heads to trial over opioid bribes scheme

BOSTON (AP) — The wealthy founder of a drug company is heading to trial on allegations that he led a scheme to bribe doctors into prescribing a highly addictive fentanyl spray. Opening statements are expected in Boston’s federal court Monday in the case of Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor and four other former employees... Read More

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Opioids

January 17, 2019

Prosecutor: Drug maker pushed OxyContin despite danger signs

BOSTON (AP) — A member of the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma told people at the prescription opioid painkiller’s launch party in the 1990s that it would be “followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition,” according to court documents filed Tuesday. The details were made public in a case... Read More

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Opioids, OxyContin, Purdue Pharma

January 16, 2019

Filing: OxyContin maker forecast ‘blizzard of prescriptions’

Criminal Justice News, Doctors, Drugs, News

Opioids, OxyContin

November 30, 2018

Babies born in withdrawal new complication in opioid cases

The expansive court case seeking to hold drugmakers responsible for the nation’s opioid crisis has a new complication: How does it deal with claims covering the thousands of babies born dependent on the drugs? Attorneys representing the children and their guardians want their claims separated from the federal case in Cleveland that involves hundreds of... Read More

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Opioids

February 21, 2018

Doctors charged in West Virginia, Virginia pill mill case

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Ten doctors have been charged with overprescribing pain pills from clinics in West Virginia and Virginia, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. Two of those patients died. Most of the 69-count indictment charges the owners, managers and physicians associated with Hope Clinic with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and other controlled substances that weren’t... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Doctors, Drugs, News

Opioids

More states sue opioid maker alleging deceptive marketing

Oklahoma attorney blames corporate greed for opioid crisis

Spotlight on Oklahoma for start of trial for opioid makers

5 states announce new suits over prescription opioids

Hard-hit Pennsylvania to sue drugmaker over opioid epidemic

Indictment: Ex-CEO ignored red flags as opioid crisis raged

Oklahoma judge denies delay requests in opioid lawsuit

Family made billions on opioid as crisis raged, filing says

Drug firm founder heads to trial over opioid bribes scheme

Prosecutor: Drug maker pushed OxyContin despite danger signs

Filing: OxyContin maker forecast ‘blizzard of prescriptions’

Babies born in withdrawal new complication in opioid cases

Doctors charged in West Virginia, Virginia pill mill case

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