Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation
Oct. 7, 2020
The blame game: Opioid litigation in America
Whether you blame the pharmacies, the manufacturers or the doctors, people are the collateral damage.
In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical manufacturers assured the American public that opioids were non-addictive. Clearly that was false. Between 1999 and 2018, 232,000 people died from prescription opioid addiction. For the last five years, America has been struggling with who to blame for the opioid epidemic that has swept through this country. Litigation, both civil and criminal, has been filed with the goal of making the responsible parties pay either in money or with ...
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