... systems and providers also played crucial roles that ushered in a public health crisis with an average of 130 people dying daily from fatal opioid overdoses. The scope of legal action should be broader than settlement cases with pharmaceutical companies, Beletsky said. The opioid crisis itself illustrated systemic problems in ...
... it "continues to work with all plaintiffs on reaching a comprehensive resolution to its opioid litigation that will deliver billions of dollars and vital opioid overdose rescue medicines to communities across the country impacted by the opioid crisis."Members of the Sackler family said in a statement there are good ...
The American opioid crisis has left a lethal mark. Experts estimate as many as 400,000 people may have died from overdoses and related problems in the past several decades. Now, more than 20 states appear to have reached a comprehensive settlement against Purdue Pharma, maker of opioid OxyContin. Amna ...
... deaths and preventing mass shootings. Searching for solutions When the nation was confronted with deaths from motor vehicle accidents, HIV/AIDS and opioid misuse or overdoses, the U.S. funded research to better understand and stem those public health crises, said Garen Wintemute, chair of the Violence Prevention Research Program ...
... services that meet local needs. Separately, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will get $900 million under a three-year program to help state and local governments better track overdose data. Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia are among jurisdictions sharing $301 million in the first year.
... the Cleveland negotiations. The settlement talks involve more than 2,000 lawsuits against the company and other players in the painkiller industry over the opioid overdose epidemic that has killed more than 400,000 people in the U.S. since 2000 and torn apart communities. The first federal trial over ...
... Boston Medical Center’s Grayken Center for Addiction. He has researched how the pharmaceutical industry’s marketing practices may have laid the groundwork for rising overdose deaths. Companies marketed prescription opioids to doctors in regions where opioid use had become problematic, he said, perpetuating a cycle of use. “Our nation ...
... Those actions compromised the health and safety of thousands of Oklahomans. Specifically, defendants caused an opioid crisis that is evidenced by increased rates of addiction, overdose deaths, and neonatal abstinence syndrome in Oklahoma. The opioid crisis has ravaged the state of Oklahoma. It must be abated immediately. John Yang: Johnson ...
... campaign that overstated how effective the drugs were for treating chronic pain and understated the risk of addiction. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter says opioid overdoses killed 4,653 people in the state from 2007 to 2017. Hunter has called Johnson & Johnson a "kingpin" company that was motivated by greed ...
... stop this wave of opioids is sort of where they need to be. Right now, the current solution to that is using sort of these overdose reversing drugs like Narcan and that is sort of stemming the problem a little bit in places like Ohio. But it's just sort ...
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