Since the early 1990s, Big Pharma has run aggressive campaigns to push doctors to prescribe opioids. These campaigns, based on little or no evidence, claimed that opioids were safe and non-habit forming. Lawmakers are now reviewing how these false claims contributed to the opioid epidemic America faces today. For example, a coalition of 41 states’ attorneys general have a class-action lawsuit against five major opioid manufacturers because of their misleading advertising and marketing. ... |