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Civil Litigation and the Opioid Epidemic: The Role of Courts in a National Health Crisis

Published:2018 Issue:2 Volume:46 Page:351-366
ISSN:1073-1105
Container-title:Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Law. Med. Ethics

Author:

Gluck Abbe R.,Hall Ashley,Curfman Gregory

Abstract

The devastating impact of the national opioid epidemic has given rise to hundreds of lawsuits. This article details the extremely broad range of legal claims, compares the opioid cases to other public health litigation efforts, including tobacco, and describes the special mechanism — a multidistrict litigation — through which more than 700 opioid-related cases have been consolidated thus far, with settlement almost certain to follow.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Health Policy,General Medicine,Issues, ethics and legal aspects

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1073110518782945

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