big pharma
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Colorado suing drug maker over opioid addiction epidemic
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Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman said Thursday she’s suing one the nation’s biggest drug makers over whether it feeds Colorado’s “ravaging” opioid addiction epidemic. She alleges Purdue Pharma L.P. and Purdue Pharma, Inc. used “fraudulent and deceptive marketing” to mislead Colorado doctors and patients about the risks addiction. Purdue also coaxed doctors into prescribing “more…
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Ballot issue helped awaken a movement toward health care for all
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All social movements begin somewhere. Someone speaks out against an injustice that many have felt, and envisions a better way. The power holders hate this: They will do everything possible to silence a growing tide of voices speaking up for social justice. They did just that against the campaign to pass universal health care for…
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IN RESPONSE: We need transparency now in prescription-drug pricing
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As a Type 1 diabetic, I have a choice: inject insulin or die. Every day for the last 46 years, I have injected insulin; if I go 24 hours without it, I will die a horrible death. When insulin was discovered in the 1920s, the patent was sold for one dollar. The researchers wanted to…
