The governments of several large California counties and one city filed the lawsuit against the four companies,
Reuters reported. Santa Clara, Los Angeles and Orange counties and the city of Oakland are all seeking reparations to cover the costs of treating opioid-addicted people in their counties. The plaintiffs in the case will argue the companies downplayed the addictive nature of opioids and intend to seek more than $50 billion in damages from the companies.
The charges against the opioid makers is part of a string of thousands of lawsuits filed by state and local governments that have grappled with the issues caused by opioid overdoses, including responses from law enforcement, first responders and the medical system. There are still more than 3,400 such lawsuits pending across the United States,
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The war on drugs in the United States has been a failure that has ruined lives, filled prisons and cost a fortune. It started during the Nixon administration with the idea that, because drugs are bad for people, they should be difficult to obtain. As a result, it became a war on supply.
As first lady during the crack epidemic, Nancy Reagan tried to change this approach in the 1980s. But her “Just Say No” campaign to reduce demand received limited support.
Over the objections of the supply-focused bureaucracy, she told a United Nations audience on Oct. 25, 1988: “If we cannot stem the American demand for drugs, then there will be little hope of preventing foreign drug producers from fulfilling that demand. We will not get anywhere if we place a heavier burden of action on foreign governments than on America’s own mayors, judges and legislators. You see, the cocaine cartel does not begin in Medellín, Colombia. It begins in the streets of New York, Miami, Los Angeles and ev
The fight over the U.S. Supreme Court’s McGirt ruling may not be over, with Gov. Kevin Stitt saying this week that he thinks it could be overturned.Meanwhile, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter is fighting to limit it, and leaders of tribal nations are speaking out in support of the Supreme Court’s decision.The McGirt case was a landmark decision that effectively means the Five Tribes of Oklahoma have reservations that are still in place today, and the state can’t prosecute many crimes that happen on those reservations. The ruling said only the federal government can do that.In some ways, the McGirt ruling has upended criminal law in eastern Oklahoma. Many crimes where a member of a tribe is the defendant or the victim can’t go through state court, prompting appeals and changes.This week, Stitt intensified an all-out push against the McGirt decision.“We still believe that we can take a case back to the Supreme Court,” Stitt told KXII. “This is either going to be