This article was originally published in MSN News.
CBS News: Opioid shipments ballooned as an addiction crisis grew, data shows
Drugmakers and distributors dramatically increased shipments of opioid painkillers across the U.S. as the nation’s addiction crisis accelerated from 2006 to 2012, according to newly released federal data.
Business Insider: New federal data exposes how America’s largest drug companies flooded the country with 76 billion opioid pills in a seven-year period
New federal data reveals that America’s largest drug companies flooded the country with 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pills in a seven-year period from 2006 to 2012
Washington Post: 76 billion opioid pills: Newly released federal data unmasks the epidemic
America’s largest drug companies saturated the country with 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills from 2006 through 2012 as the nation’s deadliest drug epidemic spun out of control, according to previously undisclosed company data released as part of the largest civil action in U.S. history.
The Guardian: Johnson & Johnson faces multibillion opioids lawsuit that could upend big pharma
This article was originally published in The Guardian. Oklahoma is holding the drug giant with the family-friendly image responsible for its addiction epidemic
New York Times: The Giants at the Heart of the Opioid Crisis
the daunting financial muscle that has driven the spread of prescription opioids in the United States comes from the distributors — companies that act as middlemen, trucking medications of all kinds from vast warehouses to hospitals, clinics and drugstores.
NBC: Opioid Case Has New Complication: Babies Born in Withdrawal
This article was originally published in NBC. Federal judges are set decide whether lawsuits filed on behalf of babies born to opioid-addicted mothers should be separated from a larger federal case
Freedom Magazine: A Southern Lawyer Tells How We Got Here, and How He Hopes to Use a Forgotten State Law to Rescue the Country from the Opioid Epidemic.
This article was originally published in Freedom Magazine.
WVNews: Huntington Lawyer One of Three Tapped to Lead Opioid Multidistrict Litigation
This article was originally published in WVNews
A Leader in the National Transvaginal Mesh Litigation
Attorney Paul Farrell, Jr. filed one of the first Transvaginal Mesh cases in the country which resulted in the consolidation of some 80,000 cases from across the United States in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, where he served on the MDL Executive Committee.