State plans lawsuit against drug firms

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
By SETH BLOMELEY
Attorney General Dustin Mc-Daniel told lawmakers Friday he’s planning a lawsuit against three major pharmaceutical manufacturers over a “marketing scheme” for anti-psychotic drugs paid for by the state Medicaid program.
Some taking the drugs shouldn’t have been given them and have developed side effects, he said.
McDaniel told the Legislative Council he could seek [...]

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Furious Seasons
Philip Dawdy
Last week, there was much media coverage of a large jump in adverse events reports and deaths due to the use–and, perhaps, misuse–or prescription drugs. Most of the coverage cited the general trend, noted how many thousands of deaths occurred among users of opiate painkillers, and moved along. I wrote about the study [...]