Opioids

Opioid Lawsuits

Nearly 3,000 opioid lawsuits filed in U.S.

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

OKLAHOMA CITY – Pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and pharmacy chains are the targets of nearly 3,000 lawsuits filed throughout the country by state and local governments and other entities – 90 of them in Oklahoma.

Opioids

Owners of OxyContin maker paid more after the company’s big fine

Associated Press

Monday, December 23, 2019

From the Associated Press The wealthy owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma started taking far more money out of the company after it was fined for misleading marketing of the powerful prescription painkiller.

Opioids

Oklahoma to appeal order in opioid case

News Staff

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

OKLAHOMA CITY – A final order in the Opioid case against Johnson & Johnson will be appealed. Attorney General Mike Hunter said the state agrees with Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman’s decision that Johnson & Johnson is a direct cause of the state’s opioid epidemic.

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