Re:Ohio Sues 5 Major Drug Companies For 'Fueling Opioid Epid...
by scottlamb on Saturday June 03, 2017 @04:38PM
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> Everyone knows how addicting these things are.
No, the point of the lawsuit is that they don't (or didn't). The article makes that clear through quotes such as: "We believe that the evidence will show that these pharmaceutical companies purposely misled doctors about the dangers connected with pain meds that they produced."
> Nobody cares about smokers getting addicted although they do care about public smoking because it infringes on their right to clean air.
No, the point of the lawsuit is that they don't (or didn't). The article makes that clear through quotes such as: "We believe that the evidence will show that these pharmaceutical companies purposely misled doctors about the dangers connected with pain meds that they produced."
> Nobody cares about smokers getting addicted although they do care about public smoking because it infringes on their right to clean air.
Public smoking is a focus of conversation today, but the analogous 1990s big tobacco lawsuits centered on the medical costs of treating smokers. See wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...