JURIST

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cencora , which is a case alleging the company failed to report thousands of suspicious opioid prescriptions, fueling the opioid epidemic. The government will now only be able to prosecute the company for failure to report suspicious prescriptions after October 2018, when the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) was amended.

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2021

The distributors affected are McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health Inc., According to James, “The numerous companies that manufactured and distributed opioids across the nation did so without regard to life or even the national crisis they were helping to fuel.” New York will receive $1.25

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The money, o verseen by a panel of tribal health experts, would go toward programs that aid drug users and communities already overwhelmed by severe financial burdens for the health care, social services, child welfare and law enforcement resources expended during the opioid crisis.

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The Crime Report

MAY 3, 2021

and Cardinal Health Inc. In Huntington’s lawsuit and hundreds of others, states and municipalities allege the distributors allowed pills to flood into pharmacies largely unchecked, and that the companies should have taken greater steps to ensure prescription drugs weren’t being diverted for improper uses.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 30, 2021

joked about addicts, sent parody photos, and created satirical songs while contributing to what New York’s attorney general and Nassau and Suffolk counties say is a public-health crisis in the state, reports the Wall Street Journal. The remaining companies include drugmakers Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The company and the Oklahoma justices are right on the law. Public-health nuisances are acts that involve unreasonable conduct exposing others to harm, like keeping diseased animals or improperly storing explosives in a population center. In the opioid litigation, the companies were producing a lawful, nondefective product.

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