Opioid ‘kingpin’ J&J fueled epidemic, Oklahoma argues at trial’s end
NORMAN, Okla. (Reuters) – Lawyers for the state of Oklahoma on Monday compared Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) to a drug cartel leader as they sought to hold the drugmaker responsible…
Oklahoma judge approves Teva’s $85 million opioid settlement
(Reuters) – An Oklahoma judge on Monday approved a revised $85 million (£66.7 million) settlement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd resolving claims by the state’s attorney general that the drugmaker…
Oklahoma judge approves Teva’s $85 million opioid settlement
(Reuters) – An Oklahoma judge on Monday approved a revised $85 million (£66.7 million) settlement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd resolving claims by the state’s attorney general that the drugmaker…
U.S. cities propose framework for nationwide opioid settlement talks
(Reuters) – Lawyers for counties and municipalities suing drug manufacturers and distributors over their alleged roles in the U.S. opioid epidemic on Friday pitched a novel plan that would bring…
Pharmacies may not stock naloxone, despite statewide orders
(Reuters Health) – More than three years after Pennsylvania issued a statewide order expanding access to the life-saving opioid antidote naloxone, the product was still hard to purchase in Philadelphia…
Insys to pay $225 million, unit to plead guilty to settle U.S. opioid charges
(Reuters) – Insys Therapeutics Inc agreed to pay $225 million and an operating unit agreed to plead guilty to five mail fraud counts to settle criminal and civil probes into…
In states with most overdose deaths, poor patients struggle to find treatment
Poor people with opioid use disorders may struggle to find doctors to prescribe the anti-addiction drug buprenorphine in U.S. states with the highest overdose death rates, a new study suggests.…
U.S. football player’s overdose death spotlighted in J&J Oklahoma opioid trial
(Reuters) – The father of a college football player who died of a drug overdose gave emotional testimony about the U.S. opioid epidemic’s personal cost on Wednesday in the second…
U.S. dentists prescribe opioids far more often than British counterparts
(Reuters Health) – Dentists in the U.S. prescribe opioids at a rate 70 times higher than dentists in England, a new study finds. Moreover, the types of opioids prescribed by…
J&J’s greed helped fuel U.S. opioid crisis, Oklahoma claims at trial
NORMAN, Okla. (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson’s greed led the drugmaker to use deceptive marketing to create an oversupply of painkillers that fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic, the state of…