Should Governments Sue Drug Companies
December 30, 2017
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as posted by the channelChicago is taking action against the opioid crisis by filing a lawsuit against the drug companies. Cenk Uygur, the host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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“Officials in the one of the nation’s largest counties filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging that major prescription drug manufacturers were “complicit” in the opioid crisis and should pay monetary damages for the public health costs.
Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago, the nation’s third largest city, reported a 70 percent increase in opioid-related deaths between 2015 and 2016, according to the medical examiner’s office. In the city of Chicago, 741 people died from opioid-related overdoses in 2016, similar to the number of people who died from gun violence that year.
“Opioid deaths in Cook County are growing at an alarming rate. This is a public health crisis affecting nearly every community in the County for which we must find a solution,” Toni Preckwinkle, president of the county’s board of commissioners, said in a press release announcing Wednesday’s lawsuit.
“We believe a good start is to aggressively confront one of the root causes of this national epidemic: the pharmaceutical companies and those paid by the pharmaceutical companies who put profits before public health and safety,” Preckwinkle added.”
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