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Opioids
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PrawfsBlawg
Race or Rez?
Main Friday, December 08, 2023Race or Rez?In argument in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma (on the settlement of the opioid bankruptcy), there was much discussion of the "res" of the bankrupt…
Health Law Diagnosis
Connecticut Adds Requirements for Opioid Prescribing and Expands Provider Licensure and Credentialing Avenues
By Nathaniel Arden, Robinson+Cole's Health Law Group, Ivy Miller
On June 28, 2023, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed Public Act No. 23-97, “An Act Concerning Health and Wellness for Connecticut Residents.” The Act includes a wide range of provisions…
Commercial Litigation Update
The 2023 DOJ Health Care Fraud Enforcement (f/k/a “Takedown”): Big Dollars or Clever Packaging?
By Zachary S. Taylor, Sarah M. Hall
On June 28, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“HHS-OIG”), along with other federal and state…
Health Law Prof Blog
Disrupting Drug Markets: The Effects of Crackdowns on Rogue Opioid Suppliers
Adam Soliman (Duke University), Disrupting Drug Markets: The Effects of Crackdowns on Rogue Opioid Suppliers, ERID Working Paper 313 (2023):More than 564,000 Americans have died from an opioid-related overdose since…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Chancery’s novel timeliness ruling gives opioid suit against AmerisourceBergen board a little more time
This post was prepared by Frank Reynolds, who has been following Delaware law and writing about it in various publications for over 30 years. A recent milestone Chancery Court opinion…
Rudner Law Blog
Health and Safety: Update on Naloxone Kit Requirement for Employers in Ontario
As we wrote about previously, on April 11, 2022, the Ontario government passed the Working for Workers Act, 2022, which included changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Act (the…
Regulatory Oversight
Forty-Five Attorneys General Urge Permanent Nationwide Telehealth Access for Opioid Treatment
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team
Recently, 45 state attorneys general sent a joint letter to the Drug Enforcement Agency and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, requesting the permanent extension of nationwide "telemedicine" prescriptions for…
Money Laundering Watch
Countering Financial Flows From the Illicit Trade in Fentanyl and Synthetic Opioids
We previously blogged on an advisory issued by FinCEN alerting financial institutions to the various financial mechanisms used by traffickers of fentanyl and synthetic opioids to launder the burgeoning proceeds…
Regulatory Oversight
2022 State Attorneys General Election Re-Cap
By Ashley L. Taylor, Jr., Clayton Friedman, Michael Yaghi, Ketan Bhirud, Tim Bado, Rachel Buck, Chris Carlson, Bonnie Gill, Natalia Jacobo, Namrata Kang, Mary Grace Metcalfe, Rachel Miklaszewski, Whitney Shephard, Daniel Waltz
Updated November 11, 2022 at 11:29 AM ET 2022 State Attorneys General Election Re-Cap On November 8, 30 states and the District of Columbia held elections for state attorneys general.…
Legal Profession Blog
The Judge From Cookeville
The Tennessee Board of Judicial Conduct has suspended a judge for 30 days.One set of allegations involved his public comments in opioid litigation where he took on the role of…