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Native American tribes reach $590 million opioid settlement with Johnson & Johnson over disproportionately high death and addiction rates
2022-02-03
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and AmerisourceBergen, McKesson and Cardinal Health, reached a $590 million settlement with Native American tribes

  • All federally recognized tribes in the U.S. will be able to participate in the settlements, even if they did not sue over opioids

  • One study cited in the settlement found that Native Americans have had the highest per capita rate of opioid overdose of any population group in 2015

  • Under the settlement Johnson & Johnson- who stopped selling opioids- would pay $150 million over two years

  • AmerisourceBergen McKesson and Cardinal would contribute $440 million in total over seven years

Posted by:Skidmark

#8  Not ONE single drugmakers arrested. Says it all.
Posted by: Woodrow   2022-02-03 19:54  

#7  Next the liqueur companies?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-02-03 19:19  

#6  ^ Snark o' The Day!
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-03 17:35  

#5  Threaten to arrest and imprison Fauci. The Chinese will pay whatever we demand.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-02-03 17:13  

#4  
you can't sue drug dealers, the Mexican mob or Chinese communists.

Actually the PRC can be sued in the USA, and IIRC they import a lot of valuable stuff into the USA. Interfering with those imports or even slapping a tariff on them is quite doable.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2022-02-03 16:23  

#3  About 15% of overdose deaths now are due to prescription opiods. Before the fentanyl invasion, prescription abuse was responsible for the majority of deaths. But you can't sue drug dealers, the Mexican mob or Chinese communists.
Posted by: Ulelet Snusotch7182   2022-02-03 15:16  

#2  Big pharma, deep pockets.
Posted by: jpal   2022-02-03 15:01  

#1  I have yet to find studies on opioid ODs which attempt to distinguish the manufacturer of the offending killer agents. E.G. What percentage of fentanyl overdoses are due to illegally imported Chinese sourced fentanyl? THAT has zero to do with any legal US sources, and is all to do with the PRC and the USA failure to take this seriously.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2022-02-03 12:18  

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