CHARLESTON – The program director for Huntington s Quick Response Team and Cabell EMS employee testified during the first federal trial against the “Big Three” opioid distributors over their role in the drug crisis that Cabell County does have data tying prescription drug use to illegal drug use, and to an overwhelming impact of the drug crisis on the community and first responders.
Meanwhile, the drug distributors – McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health – sought to put the focus on the role of prescribers, as well as health officials decision not to go after distributors earlier.
The City of Huntington and Cabell County sued the distributors in 2017 over their role in the overdose crisis, after more than 80 million doses of the drugs were sent to the area in an eight-year period.
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It was fun while it lasted. Useful, too.
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It was fun while it lasted. Useful, too.
Most of us have at best ambivalent feelings towards the coronavirus pandemic, and usually regard it as a particularly unpleasant year-and-change taken from us. Not so Elizabeth Holmes: While she may not exactly be having the time of her life, what with not being a billionaire anymore and all, she’s certainly made good use of it, getting conveniently knocked up by her 20something trust-fund baby husband (who needs to be a billionaire after all?). But, most importantly to Liz, we have to imagine, which is what she’s not been doing, and that is to say, going to court on those pesky fraud for allegedly lying about Theranos’ not-all-that-revolutionary and not-all-that-accurate blood tests, which could send her to the pokey until her unborn child is ready to drop out of Stanford him- or herself.
CHARLESTON – During the third day of a federal trial against three major opioid distributors, lawyers for the City of Huntington and Cabell County sought to make the case that the ongoing drug crisis was predictable, as well as tied to the use of prescription painkillers.
On May 5, attorneys called David Courtwright, a historian of opioid use and drug policy, as well as Dr. Rahul Gupta, who was West Virginia’s health officer and commissioner of the state’s Bureau for Public Health from 2015-2018, to testify in the bench trial at the Charleston federal courthouse.
Gupta testified, at one point, that there was not “one iota of doubt” that prescription drug use led to illegal drug use. Defendants have said there is no proof of a direct causal link and objected to his testimony dozens of times.
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CHARLESTON – A historian of opioid use and drug policy testified, in a federal trial against three major opioid distributors Wednesday, about three principal opioid epidemics that preceded the ongoing crisis.
The City of Huntington and Cabell County sued the “Big Three” drug distributors – McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, and Cardinal Health – in 2017 over their role in the overdose crisis, after more than 80 million doses of the drugs were sent to the area in an eight-year period.
Wednesday is the third day in the bench trial at the Charleston federal courthouse. Farrell | farrell.law
Under questioning from plaintiffs lawyer Paul Farrell Jr., David Courtwright, who wrote The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business, said the first epidemic, in the late 1900s, came from widespread medicinal use of opioids.