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How Primary Care Can Better Treat Chronic Pain

Pain specialists offered tips for primary care clinicians when treating chronic pain.

Dismissal request looms over opioid trial as defense takes reins

Dismissal request looms over opioid trial as defense takes reins

HUNTINGTON — A request to dismiss the case against opioid firms accused of adding fuel to the fire that is the opioid crisis by shipping hundreds of opioid dosages to Cabell County and Huntington will loom over the trial as the defense presents its witnesses. The evidence shows AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson shipped more than 127 million dosage units of opioids into the county over an eight-year period. Attorneys say a systematic failure of the companies’ suspicious ordering monitoring system, combined with company executives seeking to make as much profit as possible, led to an unnecessary amount of pills being shipped.

Doctor testifies to seriousness of opioid prescribing as defense takes reins of trial

Close The trial of the “Big Three” drug companies accused of fueling an opioid drug epidemic in Cabell County and the city of Huntington is taking place at the Robert C. Byrd U.S. Courthouse in Charleston. Courtesy of the West Virginia Humanities Council