On this edition of Your Call's media roundtable, we're discussing a recent West Virginia ruling in favor of three major US drug distributors in a landmark opioid lawsuit. The city of Huntington and Cabell County will not receive the $2.5 billion they sought from McKesson, Cardinal Health, and Amerisource Berge to help deal with the crisis.
Those companies shipped 81 million pain pills to Cabell County from 2006 to 2014, according to federal data made public during the trial. West Virginia is ground zero of the opioid crisis.
How will this ruling affect other opioid related lawsuits in cities across the country?
Guest:
Eric Eyre, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author of the award winning book, Death In Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
Web Resources:
Mountain State Spotlight: Drug distributors win landmark opioid case brought by West Virginia local governments
The NY Times:Behind the Scenes, McKinsey Guided Companies at the Center of the Opioid Crisis
The Washington Post: Follow The Post’s investigation of the opioid epidemic
