Enlarge / WHITE PLAINS, WESTCHESTER, United States – Oct. 10, 2019: Protesters holding banners outside the courthouse. reader comments 55 with 42 posters participating Share this story A federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday extended “extraordinary” protections for the mega-rich Sackler family amid a call from legal experts for a special examiner to investigate the family’s ..
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Enlarge / Curaleaf products reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating Share this story One CBD company sure has been busy. The company Curaleaf claims that it has developed products that can treat a slew of the most formidable conditions found in humans, including cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, depression, opioid withdrawal, chronic pain, anxiety, post-traumatic stress ..
Enlarge / Members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters hold signs while protesting during the McKesson Corp. annual meeting at the Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce in Irving, Texas, US, on Wednesday, July 26, 2017. reader comments 232 with 125 posters participating Share this story Between 2006 and 2012, opioid drug makers and distributors flooded ..
Enlarge / Insys Therapeutics founder John N. Kapoor leaves federal court in Boston on March 13, 2019. reader comments 155 with 100 posters participating Share this story Opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections Monday, just days after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges and agreeing to pay $225 million to settle ..
Enlarge / If approved, Purdue’s new drug would compete with opioid overdose antidote, naloxone. reader comments 124 with 75 posters participating Share this story Notorious OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma—which has been widely criticized for deceptively marketing its highly addictive painkiller and for its role in spurring the current nationwide epidemic of opioid abuse and overdose deaths—is ..
reader comments 45 with 34 posters participating Share this story In a motion to dismiss an explosive lawsuit brought by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma argues that it is not responsible for the current epidemic of opioid overdoses as the Commonwealth alleges—even if the people now overdosing were initially patients who became addicted ..
reader comments 201 with 122 posters participating Share this story Earlier this month, Ars reported on a lawsuit filed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, members of its board, and the mega-rich, secretive family behind it all, the Sacklers. The court filings were the first to allege that the Sacklers—previously known ..
reader comments 169 with 114 posters participating Share this story With the opioid epidemic raging, you may at this point be familiar with Purdue Pharma. It makes the powerful painkiller OxyContin and has been widely blamed for igniting the current crisis. After debuting OxyContin in 1996, Purdue raked in billions using aggressive and deceptive sales ..
reader comments 155 Share this story In 2015, a college student in Texas named Elizabeth Moreno had back surgery to correct a painful spinal abnormality. The procedure was a success, and her surgeon followed it with just a short-term prescription for the opioid painkiller hydrocodone to ease a speedy recovery. Then came a “routine” urine ..
reader comments 75 Share this story Purdue Pharma LP, the maker of opioid painkiller OxyContin, said that it will stop aggressively promoting opioid painkillers directly to doctors—a practice many blamed for helping to create the epidemic of opioid addiction and overdose that has recently been killing an average of 115 Americans each day. According to ..