Latest Drugs Headlines
All the headlines from our Drugs Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Baltimore Settles With Rapper for $300K Over Claims of False Arrest, Police Planting Drugs
May 31 2022 // A court settlement calls for the city of Baltimore to pay $300,000 to resolve claims that police officers planted drugs on a rapper known as Young Moose. The Baltimore Sun reports that the city’s spending board is...
Mental Telehealth CEO Ousted as U.S. Probes Prescription Practices
May 20 2022 // Cerebral Inc. directors voted to oust the mental telehealth giant’s founder and chief executive officer, Kyle Robertson, on Wednesday, as the booming industry draws scrutiny from federal law enforcement and patient...
Drugmaker Sanofi Ordered to Compensate French Family for Epilepsy Drug Side Effects
May 16 2022 // PARIS – A French court has ordered Sanofi to pay more than 400,000 euros ($416,440) in damages to a family whose child suffered from a form of autism caused by its epilepsy drug Valproate, saying the drugmaker failed to...
Under Scrutiny, Some Telehealth Firms Are Rethinking ADHD Drugs
May 5 2022 // The largest online mental health startup has tightened its prescription practices after criticism by medical professionals that its aggressive social-media marketing and workplace culture made some addictive medications...
West Virginia Starts Day in Court Versus Drug Opioid Drugmakers
Apr 4 2022 // West Virginia is set to go to trial this week against Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N, Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries and AbbVie Inc. over claims that the companies fueled an opioid epidemic in the state. West Virginia...
Massachusetts Governor Wants to Expand Mental Health Services, Lower Drug Costs
Mar 18 2022 // Gov. Charlie Baker unveiled a bill Tuesday that he said would help expand access to primary care and mental health services and help control rising health care and prescription drug costs. The Republican detailed the...
‘Scum of the Earth’: Drug Victims Face Purdue Pharma Owners
Mar 14 2022 // Angry, defiant and sometimes tearful, more than two dozen Americans whose lives were upended by the opioid crisis finally had their long-awaited chance Thursday to confront in court some members of the family they blame...
Supreme Court Asked to Resolve Federal Drug Law v. State Medical Marijuana Laws Debate
Mar 7 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to address whether the federal drug law that criminalizes possession of marijuana invalidates state orders requiring employers and their workers’ compensation insurers to pay for...
‘Injections, Injections, Injections’: Troubling Questions Follow Closure of Sprawling Pain Clinic Chain
Mar 2 2022 // HANFORD, Calif. — On May 13 of last year, the cellphones of thousands of California residents undergoing treatment for chronic pain lit up with a terse text message: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, Lags Medical...
Supreme Court Asked to Resolve Federal Drug Law v. State Medical Marijuana Laws Debate
Feb 28 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to address whether federal drug law that criminalizes possession of marijuana invalidates state orders requiring employers and their workers’ compensation insurers to pay for...
Drug Distributors, J&J Agree to Finalize $26 Billion Opioid Settlement
Feb 25 2022 // The three largest U.S. drug distributors and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson have agreed to finalize a proposed $26 billion settlement resolving claims by states and local governments that they helped fuel the U.S. opioid...
CDC Proposes Changes in Guidance to Doctors on Opioid Prescriptions
Feb 16 2022 // The nation’s top public health agency has proposed changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers. The Centers for Disease Control and...
Bipartisan Report Calls for New Strategy, Cabinet Post to Fight Opioid Epidemic
Feb 9 2022 // The U.S. needs a nimble, multipronged strategy and Cabinet-level leadership to counter its festering overdose epidemic, a bipartisan congressional commission advises. With vastly powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl...
Massachusetts Senate Weighs Bill to Lower Prescription Drug Prices for Patients
Feb 9 2022 // A bill aimed at addressing the increasing costs of prescription drugs is scheduled to come up for a vote in the Massachusetts Senate this week. The legislation would establish a process for identifying drug price...
About 100 Catalytic Converters Discovered in Louisiana Raid
Feb 7 2022 // Police seized about 100 catalytic converters and arrested two people during a raid at a Baton Rouge home. Officers executing a search warrant Thursday evening arrested a 39-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman after...
Teva to Pay $420M to Settle Shareholder Suit Over Generic Drug Pricing
Jan 19 2022 // Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has agreed to pay $420 million to settle shareholder litigation alleging the company hid an anti-competitive scheme to fix the price of generic drugs. The settlement was disclosed on...
Insurer Need Not Defend Drug Chain in Opioid Suits Claiming Economic, Not Personal, Injury
Jan 11 2022 // In the latest turn in litigation over the opioid crisis, a state’s high court has found an insurer does not need to pay defense costs under a commercial general liability policy for a pharmacy chain facing public...
French Court Allows Class Action Against Sanofi Over Its Epilepsy Drug Depakine
Jan 5 2022 // A French court ruled that families of children who suffered side effects from the epilepsy medicine Depakine can join in a class-action lawsuit against drugmaker Sanofi. The company should have warned of the risk of birth...
Biden’s Proposed Inflation Cap on Drug Prices Includes Private Insurance Plans
Nov 22 2021 // Workers and families with private health insurance would reap savings on prescription drugs from a little-noticed provision in President Joe Biden’s sweeping social agenda bill. It’s meant to break the cycle of...
Washington State Blames Drug Distributors in $95 Billion Opioid Trial
Nov 16 2021 // Washington state’s attorney general on Monday argued in court that three large drug distributors’ excessive shipments of pain pills helped fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic, calling it the “worst man-made...
