Everyday Americans have now been given the opportunity to join prosecutors in fighting back and holding big pharmaceutical companies accountable for the opioid crisis. On Friday January 24th, the federal judge managing the bankruptcy case of Purdue Pharma set a deadline of June 30th, 2020, to file a claim ... Read More
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Audits reveal Sackler family withdrew 10.7 Billion from Purdue Pharma
Audits produced from Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy proceedings on Monday December 16th reveal that the Sackler family—the family who owns Purdue—have withdrawn $10.7 billion from the company since 2008. The start of these withdrawals correlates to when head executives of Purdue pleaded guilty for misleading ... Read More
Alternatives to Oxycontin are not as safe as hoped
In the midst of the opioid epidemic and decline of Oxycontin, doctors are left scrambling to try and solve the issue that Oxycontin promised: relieve for chronic pain. As an alternative, Doctors started to embrace a drug called Gabapentin—traditionally a preventive drug for seizures—as a way to treat chronic ... Read More
Billion Dollar Proposed Drug Settlement
In the middle of the month of October, four State Attorneys General proposed a $48 billion global settlement between states, cities, counties, and prominent drug companies accused of not only causing but maintaining and profiting from the opioid crisis in America. This announcement arrived after a settlement ... Read More
Purdue Pharma Files for Bankruptcy
Purdue Pharma filed for Bankruptcy this week on September 15th. The company announced that it’s decision to file for bankruptcy is part of an agreement to pay billions of dollars to state and local governments. Still, amongst the storm of litigations and lawsuits, the company still claims no wrong-doing or ... Read More
Two Big Steps in the Opioid Crisis
On Monday, an Oklahoma judge ordered Johnson and Johnson to pay over $572 million in settlements for pushing doctors to prescribe opioids, while undermining the addictive risks. Oklahoma attorney general Mike Hunter accused Johnson and Johnson and their pharmaceutical subsidiary, Janssen, for creating a ... Read More
Largest Drug Settlement to Date
During the second week of July of this year, British big pharma company Indivior Inc. paid $1.4 billion to settle a U.S. federal investigation that involved fraud sales of the opioid medication, Suboxone. This is the largest settlement in the drug industry to date. Indivior, formally known as Reckitt ... Read More
Take Back Day
Google has shown support for National Prescription Drug Take back Day. This day will occur on April 27th, from 10am-2pm. Google has provided locations for “save disposal” of prescription drugs. This is an effort to help prevent drug abuse. The official site for Take Back Day writes that a 2017 national survey ... Read More
Safe Injection Zones
Once again, I have looked at an episode from the Buzzfeed Netflix Docu-series, Follow This. The episode I will be discussing today is from Part 1 entitled “Life Support.” In my last article I gave an overview of the episode with key facts and statistics it highlighted. This time I will be taking a different ... Read More
Rehab Tourism
Buzzfeed has a three-part documentary series on Netflix titled Follow This. The series highlights current topics that may be obscure compared to mainstream news. Episode 5 of Part 2 in the Follow This series is called “Rehab Tourism” — a topic that I thought was relevant to the Soberocity community and ... Read More