West Virginia trial to start in opioid crisis ‘public nuisance’ case
AmerisourceBergen, McKesson and Cardinal Health swamped a county with millions of doses of painkillers, according to the US state
The biggest drug distributors in the US were accused of swamping a West Virginia county with millions of doses of painkillers as testimony is set to begin in the first trial over the companies’ role in the opioid crisis is set to begin.
McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen wrongfully “sold a mountain of opioid pills into our community, fueling the opioid epidemic”, Paul Farrell, a lawyer for Cabell County, told a judge on Monday in his opening statement. The county and the city of Huntington want distributors to pay $2.6bn to beef up treatment and policing budgets strained by years of opioid overdoses and addictions...
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