Showing posts with label Opioid crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opioid crisis. Show all posts
Friday, November 29, 2024

Two New Enforcement Actions from Texas Attorney General

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As easy as it is to dislike Ken Paxton for his extravagantly disruptive policies on abortion and gender-affirming care for minors, his offic...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Settlement Off in Bankruptcy Case Involving Purdue

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Let's set the stage with the first paragraph from Thursday's majority opinion in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case : The opioid epid...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Criminal Liability of Health Care Providers

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Some types of criminal prosecutions of health care providers are rare, while others are not. 1. Not-so-rare.  This category includes fraud (...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

SCOTUS Agrees to Review Proposed Opioid Settlement

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From Bloomberg's USLW email teaser: The US Supreme Court agreed to consider scuttling Purdue Pharma LP’s $6 billion opioid settlement, t...
Saturday, November 06, 2021

SCOTUS Grants Cert. in Three Health Law Cases

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From SCOTUSBlog (with additional cites and links): Ruan and Kahn In Ruan v. United States  (20-1410; opinion below ) and Kahn v. United Stat...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Somnolescent state medical boards bear large responsibility for epidemic of opioid death and destruction

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400,000 deaths (and counting. Many multiples of that number of lives ruined. A big part of the problem is a regulatory regime that seems n...