Health Care & Hospital Law,
Criminal,
Administrative/Regulatory
Jun. 13, 2014
Selling heroin's lethal cousin
OxyContin and related opioids have become their own vehicle for fatal addiction, an expansion stimulated by irresponsible marketing of heroin's highly addictive cousin.
Robert C. Fellmeth
Price Professor of Public Interest Law
University of San Diego School of Law
Orange and Santa Clara counties have filed a major civil case against the drug companies making and marketing OxyContin and related opioids. At the outset, let us acknowledge the miraculous attributes of many medicines that relieve pain. From post-operative recovery to longer term pain management, it is a Godsend. But let us also remember the wise admonition of Aristotle about "moderation, moderation in all things." And that brings us to the OxyContin story. For it is not one of targeted...
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