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Distributors object to Gupta's testimony on transition from prescription to street drugs

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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Opioid crises repeat throughout history, expert says during distributor trial

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.
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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. ....

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Expert says brains have similar changes with prescription and illicit opioids

CHARLESTON While opioid distributors have argued there is no proof of connection between prescription painkiller use and illicit drug use, an expert in the neurobiology of addiction said, during the second day of a landmark federal trial against those distributors, that people who take prescription painkillers and illicit opioids see the same changes in their brain chemistry.
Dr. Corey Waller, an Michigan doctor with expertise in pain and substance use disorder, testified May 4 at the federal courthouse in Charleston. Lawyers for the City of Huntington and Cabell County, which sued the “Big Three” drug distributors, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, and Cardinal Health in 2017 over their role in the drug crisis, called him to testify. ....

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UPDATE: Landmark federal opioid trial against three drug distributors begins

CHARLESTON – The landmark federal trial against drug distributors McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health over their role in the opioid epidemic began May 3 in Charleston.
During Monday s opening arguments for the bench trial at the federal courthouse, attorneys for the plaintiffs – the City of Huntington and the Cabell County Commission – told Senior U.S. District Judge David A. Faber they plan to put forth records and testimony showing the drug distributors knew their role in the crisis and could foresee the harm.
Meanwhile, the defendants said the plaintiffs couldn’t prove a direct causal link between distribution and the crisis.
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Trial against opioid distributors begins in WVa

Trial against opioid distributors begins in WVa
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Huntington Mayor Steve Williams, left, and lawyer Rusty Webb enter the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse in Charleston, W. Va., Monday, May 3, 2021, for the start of the opioid trial. The trial is set to start in a lawsuit filed in West Virginia accusing three drug distributors of fueling a local opioid epidemic with excessively large shipments of painkillers over several years. (Kenny Kemp/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)KENNY KEMP/AP
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) A trial began Monday in a lawsuit filed in West Virginia accusing three drug distributors of fueling a local opioid epidemic with excessively large shipments of painkillers over several years. ....

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