Who is to blame for the nation's deadly opioid epidemic? That's the question at the heart of MDL 2804, largest civil action in U.S. history.
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Distributors maintain they followed DEA rules as they warehoused the drugs, recorded their volumes and whereabouts, and shipped them to drug stores as they were needed to fill prescriptions. Detecting and acting on signs of an addiction epidemic — that, they say, was the responsibility of police departments, county public health offices, hospitals, state medical and pharmacy boards, the DEA and the FDA.The argument puts some of the plaintiffs on the defensive, but it’s not clear it will work in court, legal experts said.
The defendants, for their part, have pointed the finger of blame at one another, at the physicians who wrote opioid prescriptions, and at the people who took the drugs and became addicted.cause the crisis? The answer could come, in part, from a massive DEA database.— offers a comprehensive tally of opioid medications in the U.S. In exquisite detail, it documents the journeys of 76 billion pills from manufacturers to pharmacies.
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