Timothy Deer
CHARLESTON – Tables turned as an expert witness for Cardinal Health had his professional reputation challenged during his testimony at the bellwether federal opioid trial.
Enu Mainigi, representing Cardinal Health, called local physician Timothy Deer as an expert in pain management and the standard of care for pain management.
Deer testified that he was asked to look at the standard care in West Virginia between 1994 and 2021, the change of opioid prescribing and “what really happened” in West Virginia. Mainigi
Huntington and Cabell County sued the three large distribution companies – AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson – in 2017, seeking the parties be held responsible for their part in the opioid epidemic. Five of 77 pharmacies in Cabell County and Huntington, received over 23.2 million pills between 2006 and 2014 according to DEA data.
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Heather Jackson filed a lawsuit in May on behalf of her daughter, 11-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, challenging West Virginiaâs new law banning transgender girls and women from participating in school-sanctioned sports that align with their gender identity. Pepper-Jackson, a runner, is being prohibited from joining her middle schoolâs cross country team because she is transgender.
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Consensus in American politics is increasingly rare except, it seems, when it comes to the legalization of cannabis. According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in April 2021, over 91% of Americans believe marijuana should be legal for either medical use or both medical and recreational use. In a period of deep division in American politics and culture, lawmakers in several states took advantage of this rare opportunity for popular legislative reforms with overwhelming bipartisan support. Virginia, New Jersey, New York, and New Mexico became the latest states to legalize recreational marijuana use, bringing the total number of US states and territories that have legalized recreational marijuana consumption by adults to twenty-one. However, the West Virginia Legislature concluded its 2021 regular session without any meaningful change to West Virginia’s prohibitive recreational marijuana use laws or to the State’