From Houston to Honolulu and San Diego to Sioux Falls, methamphetamines are the number cause of drug overdose deaths. According to a report released on October 25 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
As big pharma faces a mountain of opioid lawsuits, one novel solution is to join Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy proceedings. Just two weeks after the famed Sackler family’s Purdue Pharma filed bankruptcy, pharmaceutical giant Johnson & ...
As the Obama administration worked to develop national prescribing standards that discouraged the use of addictive opioid painkillers, Purdue used third-party groups to undermine the effort. (By Andrew Perez and Lee Fang, MapLight) Purdue Pharma, ...
For years large amounts of money were transferred out of Purdue Pharma to mysterious offshore accounts – was the company and the Sackler family hiding their money, knowing their day in court would come? Purdue ...
Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and fellow pharmaceutical companies are all looking to make billion-dollar settlement deals over their role in the opioid epidemic. Reuters was able to independently verify an NBC report regarding Purdue Pharma ...
“Defendants made substantial payments of money to a variety of different pain advocacy groups and organizations that influence prescribing physicians and other health care professionals.” “In a landmark decision, an Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered ...
“Johnson & Johnson executives made the calculated and coldblooded decision that they were going to produce a mutant strain of poppy, corner the market and supply massive amounts of the active ingredients for other companies ...
Ninety percent of the money spent by the Portuguese government on issues related to drug use is spent to increase access to treatment and rehabilitation and to fund harm reduction programs. The opioid epidemic in ...
“I think it’s fair to characterize Johnson & Johnson as a kingpin in our opioid crisis.” Johnson & Johnson (J&J), the pharmaceutical company famous for its family-friendly image, is combating a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit from the ...
“But we got a second problem in this country and it’s greed. People didn’t get addicted all on their own, they got a lot of corporate help. They got a lot of help from corporations ...
“This lawsuit contains detailed allegations about the Sackler family and their attempt to hide the vast fortunes they collected at the expense of actual lives.” In the late 1990s and early 2000s, doctors began to ...
Can one family singlehandedly create a national opioid epidemic? Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family came close. If you’re a keen observer at the Guggenheim Museum or the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan ...
Big pharma executive John Kapoor is on trial for his role in creating the opioid epidemic and if convicted faces up to 25 years in prison. For the first time, big pharma is being challenged ...
“An opioid that is a thousand times more powerful than morphine is a thousand times more likely to be abused and a thousand times more likely to kill,” – MA Senator Ed Markey. Despite the ...
In today’s hyperpartisan atmosphere, the opioid crisis may be the one issue both parties can work together on. In 2017, opioid overdose deaths totaled more than the number of people killed in the entire Vietnam ...
U.S. health officials call the opioid crisis the worst public health crisis in American history. Deaths from opioid drug overdoses have quadrupled in the last 20 to 30 years. In fact, there are more opioid ...
How one online pharmacy safety organization is partnering to combat the opioid addiction epidemic. Where there is a demand, there will be supply, and as the cost of healthcare and prescriptions has risen, the industry ...
Hedge Clippers, an organization dedicated to exposing the political and economic havoc wreaked by hedge funds and billionaires on the American people, has released a new report titled Hedge Papers No. 57: Stopping the Opioid ...
CHECK OUT THIS RESISTANCE PODCAST! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance On this episode of your Resistance Podcast, something unusual is happening in Congress. A real live, bipartisan debate is playing out on the Senate floor over the ...
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