Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation
May 19, 2021
Quarter of patients addicted after opioid pain prescription, doctor testifies
Messages that “no dose of opioids for the treatment of pain is too high,” “physiologic opioid dependence is benign and easily reversible,” and “addiction to opioids prescribed for treatment of pain is rare,” were all false and commonly used among sales representatives who marketed opioids to physicians, Dr. Anna Lembke of the Stanford School of Medicine testified during a landmark trial in Orange County.
One in four patients will become addicted after being prescribed opioids for pain, a leading doctor testified Tuesday in a $50 billion bench trial in Orange County in which the state claims Purdue Pharma and other drugmakers falsely advertised that "addiction to opioids is rare."
Dr. Anna Lembke of Stanford School of Medicine, who was recently featured in the HBO documentary "The Crime of the Century," testified via Zoom as a key wi...
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