Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation
May 11, 2021
Expert says California in midst of opioid crisis
Dr. Randall Stafford of the Stanford School of Medicine, said Monday an opioid epidemic not only existed but overly-prescribed opioids were the main cause.
Despite major drugmakers claiming no opioid epidemic exists in California, an epidemiologist testified Monday in a $50 billion false advertising trial in Orange County that the number of opioid-related deaths, emergency room visits and hospital stays he tracked in the state were of epidemic proportions.
In the fourth week of a monumental trial, a key plaintiff witness for the state, Dr. Randall Stafford of the Stanford School of M...
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