The U.S. Centers for Condition Management on Friday introduced its revised pointers for opioid prescribing with new recommendations for companies that emphasize larger communication with individuals and that opioids ought to not be on the front line for taking care of pain. The last time the CDC produced opioid recommendations […]
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(Reuters) — Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. contributed to the opioid epidemic in San Francisco by means of its sale of prescription medicine in the metropolis, a federal choose concluded on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco mentioned that Walgreens failed to correctly examine suspicious opioid orders for […]
(Reuters) — Teva Pharmaceutical Industries on Tuesday announced a proposed nationwide settlement that could resolve countless numbers of lawsuits over the drugmaker’s alleged job in the U.S. opioid epidemic. The proposal phone calls for Teva to fork out condition and nearby governments up to $3.7 billion in hard cash about 13 a long time […]
(Reuters) — Major U.S. drug distributors McKesson Corp., AmerisourceBergen Corp. and Cardinal Health and fitness Inc. are not liable for fueling an opioid epidemic in a part of West Virginia, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge David Faber rejected attempts by the town of Huntington and Cabell County to force the country’s three […]
(Reuters) — A federal jury Tuesday found that pharmacy chain operators CVS Health Corp., Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Walmart Inc. helped fuel an opioid epidemic in two Ohio counties, in the first trial the companies have faced over the U.S. drug crisis. After six days of deliberations, jurors in […]
The West Virginia Supreme Court docket explained Monday a lessen court’s get prohibiting insurers from pursuing litigation against an opioid pharmaceutical distributor in other states was overly broad. In 2012, West Virginia’s legal professional general submitted a lawsuit against Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp., a wholesale distributor of prescription opioid […]