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Highlights from the 2025 NAAG Presidential Summit

In early August, the National Association of Attorneys General, led by its 2025 President, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella, hosted the Presidential Initiative Summit in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. General...more

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Supreme Court of Canada Endorses Comity in Class Proceedings in Response to the Opioid Epidemic

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A national class action on behalf of multiple Canadian governments to recover opioid epidemic healthcare costs simplifies the aggregation, prosecution, and determination of claims that span geographic boundaries. That is what...more

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Health & Human Services Releases Final Rule for Opioid Treatment Programs

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (“SAMHSA”) published a final rule on Feb. 2, 2024, that cemented significant Pandemic-era flexibilities...more

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New SAMHSA Rule Expands Access to Medications for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder

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On February 2nd, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule expanding patient access to medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder (“OUD”). This new final rule implements changes...more

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The Opioid Crisis and Pharma Accountability: The Road So Far

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In 2020, over 142 million prescriptions for opioid medications were filled in the U.S. That same year, 16,416 people died from overdoses on prescription opioids—a 376% increase from 1999....more

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Product Liability Litigation Update - August 2022

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West Virginia Federal Court Rejects Claims That Three Opioid Distributors Are Responsible for the State’s Opioid Crisis in First Federal Bellwether Trial - In a blow to state and local entities’ efforts to hold drug...more

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Outlook for Action on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Initiatives

Prompted by rising rates of overdose deaths, suicides and incidence of mental illness in at-risk populations, such as children, Congress has spent the better part of the year working in a bipartisan manner to develop and...more

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Social media blamed for fueling opioid crisis for the young

The social media sites that young folks so adore also have turned into virtual illicit drug bazaars, helping to explain the exploding problems with the powerful synthetic painkiller fentanyl and why opioids and overdoses of...more

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CDC Updates Guidance on Opioid Prescriptions

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In a shift from prior policy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) proposed on February 22, 2022, new guidelines for prescribing opioid painkillers. The new guidance largely avoids figures on dosage strength...more

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Experts still tussle with proper prescribing of opioid painkillers

As the opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis rages, experts - after decades now of experience with powerful painkillers - continue to struggle with their proper handling and prescribing. The federal Centers for Disease...more

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Civil justice system works, as tribes show in major opioid settlements

No matter how wrong-headed critics may assail the civil justice system, Native Americans have clear evidence that liability lawsuits really do work. For hundreds of tribes and their members, the pursuit of  justice in the...more

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With 100,000 deaths, 2021 shatters grim record in opioid crisis

Federal officials have confirmed that 2021 will go in the record books as a calamitous time in the battle against the opioid painkiller abuse and overdose crisis, with more than 100,000 U.S. lives lost this year alone to a...more

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Opioid court cases offer hard evidence: Path to justice can be rocky

Patients who say they were injured by wealthy corporations must possess great fortitude as they seek justice in the civil system, as has been reaffirmed by the courts in California and Oklahoma that rejected separate cases...more

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With $ billions but no apologies or remorse, notorious opioid bankruptcy settles

In a landmark opioid painkiller case, a federal bankruptcy judge has approved what potentially may be a $10-billion settlement. It included a plutocratic clan winning sweeping protections from further civil lawsuits by...more

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Connecticut Legislature Passes Act to Help Address the Opioid Epidemic

On July 6, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act 21-113 titled “An Act Concerning Opioids” (PA 21-113), which establishes pilot programs to help serve persons with opioid use disorder in urban,...more

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As opioid drug-case settlement advances, fentanyl deaths spike in D.C. area

Just as attorneys generals for more than a dozen states inch toward a multibillion-dollar settlement with a drug maker faulted for its big role in the start of the opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis, that health menace is...more

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U.S. ends confusion and expands prescribing of opioid-fighting medication

Health workers with legal prescribing privileges have gotten newly revised federal guidelines — once again — making it easier for them to help those addicted to powerful opioid painkillers by prescribing buprenorphine,...more

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Consultant to pay $573.9 million as consequence of its sketchy opioid advice

The opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis has tarred yet another of the nation’s business titans: McKinsey, a globally renowned consulting firm, has discovered that providing corporate clients sketchy advice about addictive,...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.4.2021 | Top Story: McKinsey to Pay $587 Million for Role in Opioid Crisis

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Consulting standard-bearer McKinsey & Co. will pay $573 million to resolve state investigations and allegations related to its role “in helping ‘turbocharge’ opioid sales, a rare instance of it being held publicly accountable...more

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DOJ Files Civil Complaint Against Walmart for Illegal Opioid Distribution

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The Justice Department handed Walmart a huge slap in the face last year with the filing of a comprehensive civil case alleging that Walmart knowingly distributed large quantities of opioids in disregard of the law that fueled...more

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U.S. suit accuses Walmart of fueling deadly opioid crisis via its pharmacies

The stain of the nation’s opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis has spread now to Bentonville, Ark., as federal prosecutors have sued Walmart, accusing the nation’s largest retailer of improperly allowing its pharmacists to...more

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DEA Releases Long-Awaited Suspicious Orders Proposed Rule

It has been a long time coming. On November 2, 2020, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) released its long-awaited proposed rule to revise the regulations related to suspicious orders of controlled substances. The...more

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DEA Compliance for 2021 - How the DEA’s 2021 Proposed Aggregate Production Quotas Affect Pharmaceutical Companies and Society

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The DEA struggles to balance the pressing need to provide pain relief for those suffering from the novel coronavirus with the ongoing effort to reduce the opioid epidemic in the United States. I. Overview on the DEA and the...more

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Investigations Newsletter: Department of Justice Announces $8.3 Billion Settlement with Opioid Manufacturer Purdue Pharma and...

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Department of Justice Announces $8.3 Billion Settlement with Opioid Manufacturer Purdue Pharma and Members of the Sackler Family - On October 21, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it reached a global resolution...more

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FDA Recommends Naloxone Prescription for Patients Receiving Opioids or Medications Used to Treat Substance Use Disorder

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In an attempt to reduce the risk of death from opioid overdose, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued a Drug Safety Communication recommending that providers discuss the availability of Naloxone, the opioid...more

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