National Academy Asks Court to Strip Sackler Name From Endowment
Millions in Sackler donations sat dormant, rising in value as the opioid epidemic raged and as other institutions distanced themselves from the makers of a notorious painkiller. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Jewett Tags: Opioids and Opiates Suits and Litigation (Civil) Conflicts of Interest Pain-Relieving Drugs Science and Technology Endowments OxyContin (Drug) National Academy of Sciences Purdue Pharma Sackler Family Source Type: news
National Sciences Academy Asks Court to Strip Sackler Name From Endowment
The National Academy of Sciences is asking a court to allow it to repurpose about $30 million in donations from the wealthy Sackler family, who controlled the company at the center of the opioid epidemic, and to remove the family name from the endowment funds. The petition filed by the Academy in…#purduepharma #oxycontin #academy #marciamcnutt (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The effect of opioid use on traffic fatalities - B éland LP, Huh J, Kim D.
We use a difference-in-differences design to study the effect of opioid use on traffic fatalities. Following Alpert et al., we focus on the 1996 introduction and marketing of OxyContin, and we examine its long-term impacts on traffic fatalities involving S... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 21, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
'Rock Doc' Gets 20 Years for Illegally Prescribing Opioids
(MedPage Today) -- A Tennessee nurse practitioner who called himself the "Rock Doc" has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for illegally prescribing thousands of doses of opioids, including oxycodone and fentanyl in return for money and sex... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - March 20, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Tennessee nurse practitioner known as 'Rock Doc' gets 20 years for illegally prescribing opioids
Federal prosecutors say a Tennessee nurse practitioner who called himself the “Rock Doc” has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for illegally prescribing thousands of doses of opioids including oxycodone and fentanyl in return for money and sex (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Pennsylvania Family Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl Trafficking
According to court documents, Hadja Franklin, 55, Nabyunissa Bangoura ( “Nayunissa”), 34, Tanziludin Bangurah (“Tanziludin”), 52, manufactured counterfeit oxycodone and Xanax in a laboratory in their residence in rural Pennsylvania, which they sold on the darkweb under the moniker “MonPham.” (Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases)
Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases - March 5, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: DOJ Source Type: news
Iowa officials warn public about counterfeit oxycodone
Health and safety agencies in Iowa have issued an advisory to warn Iowans of counterfeit pain pills containing dangerous synthetic opioids. (Source: NIDA News)
Source: NIDA News - February 23, 2024 Category: Addiction Source Type: news
US corporations push to neuter laws used to hold opioid firms accountable
Opioid manufacturers and other major corporations are pushing legislation to strip away state laws that have been used to sue the pharmaceutical industry for hundreds of millions of dollars over the worst drug epidemic in US history. The influential rightwing pressure group the American…#publicishealth #oxycontin #marygraffam #nativeamerican #phrma #neilpratt #westvirginia #missouri #nathanmorris #ilr (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Supreme Court is torn over Purdue Pharma ’s opioid settlement
SOME CASES that reach the Supreme Court thrust the nine justices into an uncomfortable role. Harrington v Purdue Pharma seems to be one of those disputes. It centres on the $6bn bankruptcy settlement agreed upon by Purdue, the company that precipitated America’s opioid crisis. It may turn less on…#supremecourt #purdue #oxycontin #sacklers #supremecourts #curtisgannon #ustrusteeprogramme #departmentofjustice #johnroberts #elenakagan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Publicis Health agrees to $350M settlement over claims it helped Purdue Pharma fuel opioid crisis
A unit of French advertising giant Publicis Groupe SA agreed Thursday to pay $350 million to settle claims it helped OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma fuel the opioid epidemic in the United States. State attorneys general claimed Publicis Health played an integral role in developing "predatory and…#publicisgroupesa #oxycontin #publicishealth #oregon #portland #purduepharma #letitiajames #mckinseyco #cdc #massachusetts (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
An OxyContin advertiser will pay $350 million in the first-ever opioid marketing settlement
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Source: Reuters: Health - February 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
OxyContin marketer agrees to pay $350M rather than face lawsuits
A company that helped develop marketing campaigns for OxyContin and other opioids has agreed to a $350 million settlement with U.S. states over the toll of the powerful prescription painkillers (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - February 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
If a firm ’s mission mantra includes words like ‘trust’, be alarmed: just look at Fujitsu’s
The idea that every business needs a messianic mission statement took hold in the 1970s, to “humanise” faceless global corporations. The management guru Peter Drucker was a prime mover of the idea. A good mission statement, Drucker said, should be “short enough to fit on a T-shirt”. Its message…#peterdrucker #drucker #enron #lehmanbrothers #purduepharma #oxycontin #fujitsu #horizon #postoffice #powerpoints (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Opinion: Is one $6-billion settlement enough of a reckoning for the family that brought us the opiod crisis?
Family members of those who died in the opioid crisis protested the Sackler deal as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case on Monday. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the complex bankruptcy case of Purdue Pharma, whose owners, the Sackler family, have become synonymous…#supremecourt #purduepharma #oxycontin #purdue #sacklers #nativeamerican #ustrusteeprogram #justicedepartment #pratikshah #percocet (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Montreal father warns against counterfeit synthetic opioids after death of teen son
A father wants to spread awareness about synthetic opioids sold to teens after he says his son died of an overdose. The 15-year-old took a drug known as isotonitazene thinking it was oxycodone. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - January 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Montreal Source Type: news
