Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190528:16:23:00
Opiates have a health benefit. it may be outweighed in the future by the risk of abuse but the question here is did the marketing campaign by the drug manufacturer cause, make, result in these doctors writing the scripts that resulted in this addiction. it's a novel application of a public nuisance theory of liability and while the pharmaceutical company should be very concerned, at the same time they have a pretty good legal argument. >> do they have to establish that the drug companies misled or encouraged doctors through any kind of pay offs or subsidies. do they have to make that link betw...