Who’s to blame for the nation’s opioid crisis? Massive trial may answer that question
LA TimesDemonstrators hold pictures of loved ones lost to opioids during a protest at Purdue Pharma’s headquarters in Stamford, Conn., last year. Brand-name opioid makers Designed, manufactured and marketed prescription opioid drugs Purdue Pharma Inc., Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Allergan, Mallinckrodt Generic opioid makers Manufactured cheaper “copycat” opioid medications after the exclusivity rights of brand-name manufacturers expired Mallinckrodt’s SpecGx, Teva Pharmaceutical, Activis Generics Opioid distributors Warehoused, tracked and trucked the drugs as an intermediary between manufacturers and licensed pharmacies McKesson, Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen Pharmacy benefits managers Decided which and how many opioids could be prescribed in hospitals, at pharmacies and under many large insurance plans. Instead, you poured enough opioids into places like West Virginia to supply every American man, woman and child with 67 prescription pain pills a year.. Clean it up.” That legal argument — that an addiction epidemic can be treated like an environmental disaster — is “incredibly unique,” Cooke said. Judge Thad Balkman ruled that opioid maker Johnson & Johnson breached the state’s “public nuisance” law and ordered the company to pay the state $572 million in damages. Oklahoma’s statute holds a defendant liable for actions that “annoy, injure and endanger the comfort, repose, health and safety of others” and which “offend decency” and “render Oklahomans insecure in life and in use of property.” Although other states use slightly different language — and some have no such law — the notion of “public nuisance” has become a legal principle broadly shared across state lines.
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