Back in Court — Pill Mill edition
A lone physician was found to have prescribed more than 500,000 doses of prescription opioids to assorted patients in little more than two years of medical practice.
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Walgreens Rides Alone
One thing that emerged is that Walgreen’s own pharmacists had made repeated attempts to convince corporate leadership to establish a central database of suspicious purchases, and the customers who made them.
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Their Empire Strikes Back
The Company’s actions relating to the marketing and promotion of these important prescription pain medications were appropriate and responsible. Today the Oklahoma State Supreme Court appropriately and categorically rejected the misguided and unprecedented expansion of the public nuisance law as a means to regulate the manufacture, marketing, and sale of products, including the Company’s prescription opioid medications.”
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A Consultant’s Story
whatever McKinsey was charging for its services, their clients couldn’t have done what they did without McKinsey’s help. Sure, that led to a drug epidemic such as America has never seen, costing some half a million lives to date.
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A Last Link in the Chain
…there were some real doozies, scripts written for amounts way beyond any conceivable patient need.
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New CDC Guidelines, & Thoughts on the Opioid Epidemic
Purdue and the others may have settled their lawsuits, but the victims, and the professionals who treat them, will be paying the price for a long time to come.
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What Do Opioid Settlements Mean for Treatment?
Although fentanyl overdoses are attracting the bulk of the public’s attention, any counselor or healthcare professional will tell you that opioids are only part of what we think of as ‘the drug problem’.
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Opioid Epidemic: The Never-ending Story
…in its first two years (of the revised drug abuse policy), no MLB player has come up positive for opioids.
If you work in addictions, you might find that hard to swallow.
A Setback Followed by A Victory
Juries are less interested in subtle legal distinctions than a judge can be.
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Setback in California?
If so many players were involved, how can drug makers bear primary responsibility? Even if to the layperson’s mind, they richly deserve it.
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Drugstore Drama
…they’ll argue that since the doctors wrote the prescriptions, there’s no way the pharmacists could be expected to refuse them.
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Sad Sacklers
It’s a strategy we’ve seen employed again and again in recent years – total denial of responsibility as a first line of defense, not the last.
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Cleaning Up the Mess
“Holy crap! What happened?” the public demands. Followed by “Who’s to blame?” Not us, insist the makers and distributors.
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