![]() Quite the opposite, in 2020 over 384 Rhode Islanders died from accidental overdose on drugs, including opioids. Rhode Island has not escaped this plague. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total ‘economic burden’ of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is $78.5 billion a year, including the costs of healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice involvement.”2 1/20/22. For nearly a quarter of a century, our nation has faced a scourge that has been labeled “the Opioid Crisis.” The National Institute on Drug Abuse provides a recent snapshot of the crisis: “ In 2019, nearly 50,000 people in the United States died from opioid-involved overdoses.1 The misuse of and addiction to opioids-including prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl-is a serious national crisis that affects public health as well as social and economic welfare. ACTAVIS SOUTH ATLANTIC LLC ACTAVIS ELIZABETH LLC ACTAVIS MID ATLANTIC LLC ACTAVIS TOTOWA LLC ACTAVIS LLC ACTAVIS KADIAN LLC ACTAVIS LABORATORIES UT, INC, F/K/A WATSON LABORATORIES, INC.-SALT LAKE CITY ACTAVIS LABORATORIES FL, INC, F/K/A WATSON LABORATORIES, INC.-FLORIDA MALLINCKRODT PLC MALLINCKRODT, LLC SPECGX, LLC CARDINAL HEALTH, INC MCKESSON CORPORATION d/b/a MCKESSON DRUG COMPANY and AMERISOURCEBERGEN DRUG CORPORATION, Defendants. WARNER CHILCOTT COMPANY, LLC ACTAVIS PHARMA, INC. SACKLER TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA, INC CEPHALON, INC. RHODES TECHNOLOGIES RHODES TECHNOLOGIES INC RICHARD S. ![]() THE PURDUE FREDERICK COMPANY, INC RHODES PHARMACEUTICALS L.P. SUPERIOR COURT (FILED: February 18, 2022) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, by and through, PETER NERONHA, ATTORNEY GENERAL, Plaintiff, v.
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