Update on the Opioid Epidemic – Publicity, Changes, and Recent Lawsuits

Update on the Opioid Epidemic – Publicity, Changes, and Recent Lawsuits

In a single 12-month period, over 47,000 people have died from opioid overdoses, and a reported 10.3 million people in the U.S. misused or abused prescription opioids.  In 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the opioid crisis, and later that same year, the current presidential administration declared the crisis a public health…