Leading Pain Doctors Face Opioid Lawsuits
April 4, 2018
Source: Yahoo! Finance
Four of the nation’s leading pain doctors, who spearheaded a medical movement to treat chronic pain with opioid drugs, have been named as co-defendants in scores of lawsuits filed by cities and counties against opioid manufacturers.
The lawsuits allege that the doctors allowed themselves to be used by manufacturers, as part of a false, industrywide marketing campaign, thereby helping to instigate the public health crisis that has led to more than 300,000 opioid-related overdose deaths since 2000.
Paul Napoli of Napoli Shkolnik is was one of the attorneys who authored that complaint.
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