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March 2, 2021
Plaintiffs Feather River Tribal Health, Inc. and Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health, Inc. have filed suit against McKinsey and Company, Inc. for fuelling what they call “the worst man-made epidemic in modern medical history the misuse, abuse, and over-prescription of opioids.” According to Monday’s Northern District of Ohio complaint, the plaintiffs want to hold McKinsey, a worldwide management consulting company, accountable for ostensibly deepening the opioid crisis within tribal communities, which have disproportionately borne the toll of the epidemic.
The plaintiffs are reportedly “intertribal consortia responsible for providing healthcare services to citizens of their constituent tribes.” The complaint alleges that following Purdue Pharma L.P.’s (Purdue) 2007 guilty plea for the misleading marketing of the branded opioid OxyContin, McKinsey collaborated with Purdue to drastically increase OxyContin sales.