Commentary: How the government failed us on opioids
by Charles L. Bennett, William Kennedy Smith And Eric D. Perakslis, Los Angeles Times
Aug 12, 2019
3 minutes
If you believe that the federal government and the pharmaceutical manufacturers are effectively working together to protect patients from unsafe drugs, you might want to consider a trove of records released in an Ohio court case last month.
The documents were unsealed, over the objections of the federal government and drug companies, in a landmark, multi-district opioid lawsuit, and they give new insight into an unparalleled epidemic. The first disclosures came in mid-July, when the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals released previously unavailable information contained in a Drug Enforcement
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