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...in effect, the settlement interfered with the rights of American citizens to sue. That's a Constitutional no-no.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 4, 2023 | In the News | 0 |
...in effect, the settlement interfered with the rights of American citizens to sue. That's a Constitutional no-no.
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 24, 2023 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 10, 2023 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 28, 2022 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 5, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 4, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 25, 2022 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 21, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
…there were some real doozies, scripts written for amounts way beyond any conceivable patient need.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 20, 2022 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 21, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
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’.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 14, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
…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.
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 10, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
Juries are less interested in subtle legal distinctions than a judge can be.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 29, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
If so many players were involved, how can drug makers bear primary responsibility? Even if to the layperson’s mind, they richly deserve it.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 25, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
…they’ll argue that since the doctors wrote the prescriptions, there’s no way the pharmacists could be expected to refuse them.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 20, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 22, 2021 | Public Policy | 0 |
“Holy crap! What happened?” the public demands. Followed by “Who’s to blame?” Not us, insist the makers and distributors.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 29, 2021 | Public Policy | 0 |
It’s the opposite of transparency, and greatly limits opportunities to improve the system, so as to reduce the risk of future boondoggles.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 15, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
Purdue hired them to show the company how to survive and even grow richer in the teeth of the worst drug epidemic in US history – one where the company’s products played a key role. They did their job all too well.
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