CHRIS BURY: In Ohio, the climbing costs of the opioid epidemic are reflected in the shattered lives of people like Ashley Taylor. For the 26-year-old single mother of three, the road to addiction began in high school with pain pills often stolen from parents of friends. By 16, she was snorting, then shooting, heroin, because it was cheaper and easy to buy in the small southern Ohio town of …
St. Lawrence County legislators have agreed to meet with an attorney about the possibility of joining a class action lawsuit against companies that manufacture opioids. County Attorney Stephen D. Button said several months ago he was contacted by several firms involved in large-scale, multi-defendant opioid litigation. “They were interested in gauging the county’s interest in pursuing …
Louisville Metro Government has filed a federal lawsuit against the three largest wholesale opioid distribution companies – Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, and McKesson – for dumping millions of pills into Louisville neighborhoods while refusing to fulfill their obligations to monitor, identify, report and halt suspicious shipments of opioids. The suit, filed today in U.S. District court …
After spending millions to combat the opioid epidemic ravaging its citizens, the working-class city of Everett, Washington, is taking the maker of opioid painkiller OxyContin to federal court. The city claims that the drug maker, Purdue Pharma, knowingly sold to black markets out of pure greed, enabling the devastating epidemic hitting Everett and the rest of the country. According to the …
Drug use in Hollywood is under a microscope again amid a new lawsuit that claims actor Jim Carrey used his “immense wealth and celebrity status” to illegally obtain and distribute potentially deadly substances to his girlfriend Cathriona White, who died of a suicidal overdose at age 30 last year. White’s estranged husband, Mark Burton, filed the suit Monday in Los Angeles. The suit also alleges …