There is an epidemic of opioid addiction in America. According to data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, about 70 Americans die each year from drug overdoses. Although prescription painkillers, as well as street drugs, certainly contribute to the rise...
The epidemic that hit West Virginia very badly has finally receded. But now another threat hangs over the state, this time not the coronavirus, but opioids. Writes about this The Guardian. Over the past three months, COVID-19 has claimed 93 lives in West Virginia. But this…
The pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, which has received thousands of lawsuits due to the opioid crisis in the United States, has filed for bankruptcy. The pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, which is considered one of the culprits of the opioid crisis in the United States, has filed bankruptcy filings in court, Meduza reports citing ...
Purdue Pharma is an American pharmaceutical company that manufactures the opioid pain reliever OxyContin. The company and its owners, the Sackler family, are accused of starting and maintaining the opioid crisis in the United States. The lawsuits the Sackler family are trying to resolve allege their company's sales practices ...
The Oklahoma State Court ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $ 572 million in the US opioid crisis. This is how the country calls the epidemic of dependence on opioid analgesics and deaths from overdose of these drugs, writes Meduza. According to US authorities, between 1999 and 2017, nearly 400 Americans died of opioid addiction. In 2017, the president ...
Pharmaceutical company Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. agreed to pay $ 85 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the state of Oklahoma alleging pain relievers it produced contributed to the state's opioid crisis and caused the deaths of thousands of residents due to the abuse of such drugs. ...
For the first time in history, deaths from opioid overdose in the United States have exceeded those from car accidents, according to a new report. Amid the country's ongoing opioid crisis, the National Safety Council, based on an analysis of US deaths in 2017 ...
Outside the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in downtown San Francisco, a woman relieves herself on the sidewalk and smokes crack. She has about a dozen used heroin needles in her purse. According to her, she injects herself with heroin up to 10 times a day. Approximately at…
A physician from Linwood, New Jersey, spent nearly a year trying to arrange the murder of his wife after she threatened to expose the drug scams he was using with a biker gang. The murder of 47-year-old April Kaufman happened on May 10, 2012, when a hitman shot and killed a woman ...
The Sackler family are renowned and respected worldwide philanthropists. In the British Museum in London, in the Parisian Louvre and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, halls are named after them, their name can be found in the names of educational programs and laboratories of dozens of institutes, research centers ...