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CHARLESTON — Governments in West Virginia are gearing up for another civil trial in which three opioid distribution companies are accused of helping to create the opioid crisis.
Attorneys for the city of San Francisco sought to bolster their case Wednesday that Allergan, Teva, Walgreens and Anda illegally fueled the city's opioid epidemic by calling experts to testify that rising prescriptions and dosages allegedly pushed by the drug industry contributed to rising addiction rates.
CHARLESTON — Attorneys for pharmaceutical companies spent most of Wednesday cross-examining an expert witness who previously testified on how West Virginia was an “outlier” and a leader, compared to the
CHARLESTON – Attorneys defending drug suppliers accused of creating an opioid epidemic in West Virginia sought to poke holes in the earlier testimony of an analyst called as an expert witness by the state whose numbers showed a dramatic increase in opioid prescriptions from the years 2007 to 2017.
CHARLESTON — In addition to leading the nation with how many opioid pills were distributed throughout West Virginia, the Mountain State was home to 12 of the top 50 doctors