Knock me over with a feather…a medical doc literally wrote this “Yes, we in the medical profession got millions of Americans addicted to heroin and fentanyl. But that was all just a big misunderstanding. Why get into it? And sure, nearly one in ten adults has had a family member die from a drug overdose. Ordinary people are furious about it, too.” I sincerely hope you keep reading…
15 States Reach Deal with Opioid-Maker Purdue Pharma for $4.5B Settlement…
New York, New Jersey and 13 other states that previously opposed a controversial bankruptcy plan for Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma have reached a deal that clears the way for a $4.5 billion settlement — possibly the “most that individuals have ever paid for breaking the law.”…
Empire of Pain: Meet the Elite Merchants Who Got Americans Hooked on Drugs…
A sweeping account of Big Pharma’s first family provides a full and damning picture of their moral culpability for the opioid crisis…
Walmart Files Pre-Emptive Lawsuit Against Federal Government in Opioid Case…
Walmart, which operates more than 5,000 in-store pharmacies in the U.S., said the government’s “threatened action would be unprecedented.”…
Justice Department Announces Global Resolution of Criminal and Civil Investigations with Opioid Manufacturer Purdue Pharma and Civil Settlement with Members of the Sackler Family…
Today’s resolution does not resolve claims that states may have against Purdue or members of the Sackler family, nor does it impede the debtors’ ability to recover any fraudulent transfers…
How Chemists, Chinese Factories, and ‘Dark Web’ Dealers Spread Fentanyl Across the U.S….
The Wizard of OxyContin—where is he now? That nickname, revealed in leaked documents, belonged to an employee of Abbott Laboratories, which partnered with Purdue Pharmaceuticals to sell the drug. Starting in the late 1990s, he and his colleagues canvassed clinics around the country, hard-selling doctors on their flagship product. Purdue wooed doctors taught to distrust […]
Study: Opioid Deaths Rise in Towns Where U.S. Auto Plants Have Closed…
Federal Prosecutors Open Criminal Probe Into Opioid Makers and Distributors…
At least six pharmaceutical companies in the United States that are involved in distributing or producing opioid painkillers are facing a federal criminal investigation over their alleged role in contributing to the national overdose crisis. The existence of the probe, first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Nov. 26, is in the early stages […]
Opioid Doctor Faces up to Life in Prison…
By the time drug enforcement agents swooped into his small medical office in Martinsville, Virginia, in 2017, Dr. Joel Smithers had prescribed about half a million doses of highly addictive opioids in two years. Patients from five states drove hundreds of miles to see him, spending up to 16 hours on the road to get […]
How Afghan Opium Poppy Farming Has Grown and Grown and Grown…
The US has spent $1.5m (£1.15m) a day since 2001 fighting the opium war in Afghanistan. It’s November 2017. The night vision camera shows a network of streets in a town in Helmand province, the poppy-growing centre of Afghanistan. The camera wheels around the targets before the missiles come arcing in. There are nine strikes […]
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