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Title    South Carolina Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue
Date    Wednesday August 16 2017, @03:04AM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the pseudoaddicted dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/08/16/0128238

takyon writes:

South Carolina has become the sixth U.S. state to sue opioid makers over their marketing practices and contribution to the opioid epidemic:

The lawsuit by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, filed in Richland County Court of Common Pleas in Columbia, accuses the company of the unfair and deceptive marketing of opioid painkillers. Wilson claimed Purdue has told doctors that patients who receive prescriptions for opioids generally will not become addicted and those who appeared to be were only "pseudoaddicted" and needed more of the drugs.

[...] Since a 2007 settlement with South Carolina, Purdue has continued to downplay the addictiveness of its opioid products and overstated the benefits compared to other pain management treatments, according to the lawsuit. "While there is a time and place for patients to receive opioids, Purdue prevented doctors and patients from receiving complete and accurate information about opioids in order to make informed choices about their treatment options," Wilson said in a statement.

Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue denied the allegations and said it shares the concerns of South Carolina officials about the crisis and is committed to finding solutions. Purdue and other drugmakers have been sued over opioid products by Oklahoma, Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri and New Hampshire as well as cities and counties in California, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee and New York.

Is this Big Pharma's Tobacco Moment?


Original Submission

Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "sixth U.S. state to sue opioid makers" - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-south-carolina-purduepharma-idUSKCN1AV1MR
  3. "Big Pharma's Tobacco Moment" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-15/south-carolina-joins-states-suing-purdue-pharma-over-opioids
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=21786

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