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CHARLESTON -- While opioid distributors have argued there is no proof of connection between prescription painkiller use and illicit drug use, an expert in the neurobiology of addiction said, during the second day of a landmark federal trial against those distributors, that people who take prescription painkillers and illicit opioids see the same changes in their brain chemistry. Dr. Corey Waller, an Michigan doctor with expertise in pain and substance use disorder, testified May 4 at the federal courthouse in Charleston. Lawyers for the City of Huntington and Cabell County, which sued the “...

CHARLESTON – The landmark federal trial against drug distributors McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health over their role in the opioid epidemic began May 3 in Charleston. During Monday's opening arguments for the bench trial at the federal courthouse, attorneys for the plaintiffs – the City of Huntington and the Cabell County Commission – told Senior U.S. District Judge David A. Faber they plan to put forth records and testimony showing the drug distributors knew their role in the crisis and could foresee the harm. Meanwhile, the defendants said the plaintiffs couldn’t prove ...

Trial against opioid distributors begins in WVa Sign In May 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Huntington Mayor Steve Williams, left, and lawyer Rusty Webb enter the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse in Charleston, W. Va., Monday, May 3, 2021, for the start of the opioid trial. The trial is set to start in a lawsuit filed in West Virginia accusing three drug distributors of fueling a local opioid epidemic with excessively large shipments of painkillers over several years. (Kenny Kemp/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)KENNY KEMP/AP CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A trial began Monday in a lawsuit file...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A trial began Monday in a lawsuit filed in West Virginia accusing three drug distributors of fueling a local opioid epidemic with excessively large shipments of painkillers over several years. The city of Huntington and Cabell County filed the lawsuit against drug distributors AmerisourceBergen Drug Co., Cardinal

CHARLESTON – The landmark federal trial against drug distributors McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health over their role in the opioid epidemic began May 3 in Charleston. During Monday's opening arguments for the bench trial at the federal courthouse, attorneys for the plaintiffs – the City of Huntington and the Cabell County Commission – told Senior U.S. District Judge David A. Faber they plan to put forth records and testimony showing the drug distributors knew their role in the crisis and could foresee the harm. Meanwhile, the defendants said the plaintiffs couldn’t prove ...