CVS and Walgreens have tentatively agreed to pay a combined $10 billion to settle lawsuits brought by states and local governments alleging the retailers mishandled prescriptions of opioid painkillers. Walmart has also tentatively agreed to pay $3 billion to settle …
New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office announced two multistate settlements totaling $10.7 billion with CVS and Walgreens for their roles in the opioid crisis. Attorney General James co-led a group of attorneys general in negotiating settlements between the two …
A vending machine for powerful opioids has opened in Canada as part of a project to help fight the Canadian city’s overdose crisis. The MySafe project, which resembles a cash machine, gives addicts access to a prescribed amount of medical …
by Chris Black Literally no one cares about this. The only person in the ruling class who has experience with hard drug abuse is Joe Brandon, because his son smokes crack. New opioids spark deadly wave of overdoses in US …
CVS, Walmart, Walgreens pharmacies found liable in U.S. opioid epidemic. CVS to close 900 stores. The counties’ lawyers have said the costs are potentially $1 billion for each county. A trial on the issue is expected next year. BOSTON — …
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to cough up a settlement of up to $230 million and stop selling opioids in the US. The sum is a drop in the ocean for the firm, but comes as nationwide trials could see …
by DCG Maybe it’s not so much what demorats can DO for a city..it’s what they CAN’T do to solve problems. Because if taxpayer money solved the problem, it would have been solved decades ago. See also: Seattle is Dying DCG …
By Harry Dent On Friday, I talked about how the last 11 years have been no better than cumulative GDP during the Great Depression (1929-1940). I’ll talk more about that on Thursday. Today I want to point out the biggest difference between …
via CBSNEWS: The Sackler family name is attached to universities and prestigious institutions around the world, from New York City to London to Beijing, but what you don’t often find the name publicly tied to is the pharmaceutical company …
From Marketplace.org: The opioid crisis has put a spotlight on physician prescribing practices, especially since studies show a quarter of chronic pain patients misuse opioids. One startup in Nashville has become a sort of watchdog for health insurers who spend far more when …
via visualcapitalist: Drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, who are now more likely to die from a drug overdose than from car accidents or firearms. The United States has the dubious distinction …
By Bob Shanahan A harrowing scene unfolded in New Haven, Connecticut last week when 100 people overdosed on some form of K2, regularly and inaccurately called synthetic marijuana. While New Haven officials were responding to some 76 people, Rick Fontana, …
More New Yorkers have died from opioid overdoses than car crashes and homicides combined in recent years. Big Pharma helped to fuel this epidemic by deceptively peddling these dangerous drugs and hooking millions of Americans in exchange for profit. It’s …
We’re People In Severe Pain.. “The prescribing of opioids has dropped every year since 2012 and is at 10 year low — and yet drug overdose deaths have skyrocketed. Meanwhile, our public policy looks backward in time, intruding on the …
The Sackler family are the founders of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the Big Pharma giant that is one of the biggest purveyors of the ultra-addictive Oxycontin drug. They have profited immensely over the last couple of decades but particularly the last …
by Thinker Money is Power! Legal Drugs for Profits, Pain, and Stupidity? President Donald Trump’s nominee for drug czar, Republican Congressmember Tom Marino, had to withdraw from consideration after a Washington Post/”60 Minutes” investigation found he led a drug industry-backed …
Why do we still let the Fed artificially tinker with the economy? via Daniel Horowitz Early Friday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a better-than-expected jobs report, including the news that wages grew faster last year than at any point …
by stockboardasset Despite all the chatter surrounding the ‘globalized synchronized growth’ narrative rocketing equity markets to the moon, and or the constant bombardment of news stories about newly minted Bitcoin and Ripple millionaires living in their parents’ basement. The fracturing of the …
By Michael Snyder It is hard to believe that Baltimore was once one of the greatest cities in the entire world. Unlike nearby Washington D.C., Baltimore is a blue collar city that is home to some of the hardest working …