British Columbia says a proposed $150-million settlement with Purdue Pharma Canada has been reached for the recovery of health-care costs related to the sale and marketing of opioid-based pain medication.
Attorney-General David Eby says it’s the largest settlement of a governmental health care cost claim in Canadian history. The province launched a class-action lawsuit in 2018 against more than 40 drug companies on behalf of all federal, provincial and territorial governments with the aim of recovering health-care costs for the “wrongful conduct of opioid manufacturers, distributors and their consultants.”He says the B.C. government is “committed to aggressively pursuing litigation against the other manufacturers and distributors that put profits before people.
The attorney-general says thousands of people have died of opioid overdoses since the drug makers began their “deceptive marketing” practices. Our Morning Update and Evening Update newsletters are written by Globe editors, giving you a concise summary of the day’s most important headlines.
Meanwhile..chronic pain costs the country over $40 BILLION per year...BC's share of that about $7 BILLION. 'WHEN PEOPLE ARE LEFT IN PAIN, THE COST TO SOCIETY ECLIPSES CANCER AND HIV IN TERMS OF LOST HOURS, PRODUCTIVITY AND COST OF CARE
buggers are getting off easy ...should be US and CDN jail time for the owners and execs
A half hrs profit for Purdue. That'll teach em.🙄
GlobeBC Is the settlement $150mil plus legal costs? If not, how much did the BC government spend litigating this?
That’s strange, I thought pharmaceutical companies were altruistic, community-minded organizations that worked for the betterment of mankind.
Opioid-related deaths are expected to claim 2,400 Canadian lives in 2022. No wonder they keep the focus on guns.
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