The New York Times reports that, The City of Chicago and two California counties are challenging the drug industry’s way of doing business, contending in two separate lawsuits that “aggressive marketing” by five companies has fueled an epidemic of addiction and cost taxpayers millions of dollars in insurance claims and other health care costs.
Do they know more than OPDP? Have they contacted the FDA? Do they have legal standing or is this a case of Federal Preemption? None of these questions are addressed in the article.
Also left unmentioned is that Purdue Pharma (mentioned at great length in the Times article as a defendant), is working with the U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California to help convict felonious pharmacists who operated an opioid diversion ring.
As Aldous Huxley famously said, “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
