Month: May 2021

Drugmakers Throw Purdue Under Bus In Opioid Trial Gamble By Jeff Overley Law360 (May 21, 2021, 9:35 PM EDT) — Major pharmaceutical companies embroiled in a multibillion-dollar opioid trial are pinning blame for rampant abuse of prescription narcotics on fellow drugmaker Purdue Pharma, gambling that they can impugn Purdue’s marketing…

A corner of West Virginia wrenched by opioid addiction is getting the chance to argue in a courtroom that some of the corporate giants it blames for a public health crisis that left hundreds of people dead deserve to be held accountable. The city of Huntington and surrounding Cabell County…