The opioid manufacturer wants a global settlement. Americans need personal accountability. Making Purdue a public beneficiary trust company could yield some interesting options.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Deregulation Led to the Opioid Epidemic
In 2001, Congress rescinded the ergonomics standard that was designed to stem a range of common disabling workplace injuries. Absent regulation, injuries increased and large numbers of people were treated with addictive pain medications.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Don’t Just Prosecute Law-Breaking Executives. Prosecute Companies Too.
Deferred prosecution agreements in two cases against companies that peddled opioids highlight the need for both personal and corporate accountability.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
It’s Time To Go Further to End the Opioid Crisis
The rising death toll is a warning that Congress and the White House need to take more decisive action. If they can’t, or won’t, Americans should turn to the courts.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Facts Again Go Missing as Trump Declares Opioid Addiction a National Health Emergency
During a speech last week declaring opioid addiction a national public health emergency, President Trump made the extraordinary claim that 64,000 American lives were lost last year due to drug overdoses. “More people are dying from drug overdoses today than from gun homicides and motor vehicles combined,” he said. Trump continued to embellish his case, […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump’s Trivial Pursuit of New Hampshire’s Opioid Crisis
A throwaway comment undercuts the president’s own drug addiction commission and spotlights his tone-deafness on combatting a national epidemic in one of the worst-hit states.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Big Pharma’s Private War on Drugs
Pharmacy robberies have spiked in large part thanks to illegal demand for OxyContin. A look inside the drugmaker’s efforts to protect its product and the pharmacists at the front lines.