Someone has to benefit from the tide of lawsuits coming
at opioid manufacturers — particularly if drugmakers pay out a multibillion - dollar settlement.
Not exact matches
The group would monitor the extent and complications of
opioid addiction; spread awareness of symptoms and aftereffects through seminars and workshops; monitor and assess the state of and improvements in treatment modalities; interface with
manufacturers, retailers, and physicians offering products to treat pain; pressure the medical community to reduce availability of addictive analgesics and advocate for nonaddictive substitutes, and maintain an interface between treatment programs and similar programs targeted
at youth, health care, aging, and housing.
Republicans in the state Senate huddled for hours in private
at the Capitol Thursday afternoon, emerging to say little, other than that a tax on prescription drug
manufacturers in order to combat the
opioid epidemic remains on the negotiating table.
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (
at podium) announces participation in the lawsuit against
opioid manufacturers.
The lawyers
at The Cochran Firm — Dothan are already engaged in complex litigations against the
opioid manufacturers and distributors on behalf of local governments (cities and counties) for fraud and public nuisance.