Over 90 percent of eligible California cities and counties have signed onto a historic billion-dollar settlement with the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors over their alleged role in fueling the widespread opioid epidemic in the state, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Wednesday. The $26 billion settlement with Cardinal Health, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen as well as Johnson & Johnson, comes following investigations…
Most Eligible California Cities, Counties Sign Onto $26 Billion Opioid Settlement With Drug Distributors
January 27, 2022
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Drugmaker Teva Fueled Opioid Addiction in New York, Jury Finds
January 27, 2022
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NEW YORK—Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd fueled opioid addiction in New York state, a jury found on Thursday, a setback for a company still facing thousands of other opioid-related lawsuits around the United States. The verdict, which followed a nearly six-month New York state court trial in a case brought by the state and two of…
Drugmaker Endo Signs $65 Million Opioid Settlement With Florida
January 18, 2022
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Drugmaker Endo International plc said on Tuesday it had agreed to pay up to $65 million to resolve claims by the state of Florida and local governments that the drugmaker helped fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic. The deal is the latest in a string of settlements that Endo has struck in recent months to resolve…
FDA Flags Risk of Dental Issues From Use of Opioid Addiction Drug Buprenorphine
The U.S. health regulator on Wednesday warned patients and prescribers about the risk of potential dental problems arising from the use of buprenorphine medicines to treat opioid addiction and pain. The Food and Drug Administration said the opioid addiction treatment has been reported to cause tooth decay, infection, and, in some cases, total tooth loss…
China’s Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction Against the World
Commentary Nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons were considered weapons of mass destruction (WMD) during the Cold War. Later, radiological weapons were generally considered to be another form of WMD. Each of these weapons had a horrific effect: they could kill large numbers of people and so norms prohibiting their use were established and have…
Judge Rejects Purdue Pharma’s Sweeping $4.5 Billion Opioid Settlement
A federal judge rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the opioid epidemic Thursday because of a provision that would protect members of the Sackler family from facing litigation of their own. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in New York found that federal bankruptcy law does not give the bankruptcy judge…
Aliso Viejo Joins $26 Billion Nation-Wide Settlement With Opioid Distributors, Manufacturers
ALISO VIEJO, Calif.—The Aliso Viejo City Council unanimously approved to opt into a $26 billion settlement agreement with opioid painkiller distributors and manufacturers on Dec. 1, receiving an estimated total of $226,000 over 18 years. The council approved the item without a discussion, Mitzi Ortiz, director of government services for Aliso Viejo, told The Epoch Times….
With Rogue Juror, Opioid Plaintiffs Face New Setback Most Foul
High-stakes lawsuits accusing drugmakers, distributors, and pharmacies of stoking the national opioid scourge have suffered two major recent setbacks, and now it looks like plaintiffs could be headed for strike three. Only this time the problem may be less a controversial legal theory than a freelance Miss Marple on the jury. In Cleveland, the jury…
150 Arrested in Operation Dark HunTor, Millions in Drugs, Weapons, and Trafficked Currency Seized
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team joined Europol to arrest 150 people worldwide in Operation Dark HunTor, an effort that seized weapons, drugs and more than $31 million in currencies. Operation Dark HunTor included arrests across three continents, taking into custody alleged perpetrators across the United…
OC Judge Rejects Claims Linking Pharmaceutical Companies to Opioid Crisis
SANTA ANA, Calif.—An Orange County Superior Court judge Nov. 1 tentatively ruled that pharmaceutical companies were not to blame for the opioid crisis, as claimed by prosecutors in Orange and Santa Clara counties as well as Los Angeles and Oakland. Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson concluded that prosecutors failed to provide enough evidence…
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