Posted on 01/20/2018 3:50:56 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
Delaware wants pharmaceutical companies, drug distributors, and drug stores like CVS and Walgreens to pay for the opioid epidemic.
Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn announced Friday that the state has filed suit against nine companies that make, distribute, and sell prescription opioids.
Denn said the companies should be held responsible for "the harm they have caused to the State and its citizens and to require them to change their conduct to help end the epidemic."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com ...
No word about why Philly and Wilmington have some of the purest heroin in the country.
You are blaming drug stores? To quote the left. JUST FILL THE PRESCRIPTION!
This is how liberals think. A company makes an approved product. Consumers purchase the product. Consumers then abuse the product. Governments deals with the problems caused by those who chose to abuse the product. Liberals thus feel it’s the manufacturer’s fault and they want to sue them as people didn’t follow manufacturer’s guidelines. It’s amazingly stupid but, then, we’re dealing with liberals.
No problem. Stop selling all of these pharmaceuticals in that state. Stop shipping them to that state’s hospitals. Stop shipping everything to that state. When people complain, point them at the state government, shrug and say “What can you do?”
Drugstores don’t ingest the products. They make them. The responsibility lies elsewhere.
Stupid. How about suing Medicaid for paying for the prescriptions. Oh better not, the state would have to accept blame and sue itself.
I can’t wait until some politician, bureaucrat, or AG gets a painful incurable disease and cannot receive opiates. Why does the pendulum have to swing so hard back and forth?
Today’s classic example of the insanity brought on by the chronic mental disease known as liberalism.
Can’t sue the consumers abusing the product!
There’s no money there!
This is all about leftists looking for deep pockets to pick.
Same old crap. Let’s sue the gun makers for the irresponsibility or stupidity of the shooters that kill with a gun that was probably stolen or illegally purchased by them. The libs ride again.
rwood
Repeat of suing tobacco in 90’s
Which companies do they think are selling heroin?
What has happened to personal responsibility? Nobody made those people abuse drugs. We’re they so devoid of common sense not to know that pain killers can be addictive when prescribed dosages are exceeded.
Little Delaware must be running short of money....but what is new for a lib state??
Ya think? It worked for the lawyers in the tobacco lawsuits, so this is just a progression on an already successful scam........
As a side note, Michigan receives $250 million per year from the tobacco industry from a 1998 settlement and more than a quarter of it is going to fund Detroit's schools........LOL!
The lawyers who represented the state in their lawsuit charged $3,000 per hour and submitted a bill to the state in the amount of $32 million......What makes it even more ridiculous is the fact that the lawyers simply used the data already presented by another southern lawyer who led the initial charge.....They didn't do a damn thing to earn their $$$$$.........
It’s like sueing the fertilizer company after Oklahoma City.
delaware- isn’t that where biden’s from??? will they sue biden and obama for selling out to big pharma in order to get obamacare passed which started much of this??
Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/13/internal-memo-confirms-bi_n_258285.html
Just quit selling pain medicine to these slimy bastards.
Soup Nazi, no Soup for you!
Big Pharma Nazi, no Drugs for you!
Big Oil Nazi, no Fossil Fuels for you!
“Which companies do they think are selling heroin?”
Same ones that are selling methamphetamine.
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