opioid addiction
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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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Colorado launches campaign to ‘Lift the Label’ on opioid addiction
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Corey DePooter and Austin Eubanks were nearly inseparable during high school, sharing a love of the same music and hobbies throughout the first two years of high school. At 16, they had their whole lives ahead of them. Then came April 20, 1999. Eubanks and DePooter were both students at Columbine High School and in…
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INSIGHTS: War on drug abuse has hundreds of bullets — and not one that ends the fight
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Millions of dollars and millions of words are spent on fighting Colorado’s drug addiction every year. Real intentions, real money and real lives are at stake. That’s the fight Colorado is in, and it’s emotional, fiscal and, yes, political. In one of the most interesting under-the-radar debates of this session, doctors are quarreling with pharmacies…
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Opioid addiction is a disease, not a choice; Congress, White House should act accordingly
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Nearly 3,000 Americans died in the Sept. 11 attacks. The opioid overdose emergency now kills the same number of Americans every three weeks. The overdose death toll has grown 532 percent since 2002, overtaking car crashes as a leading cause of death; last year, 528 Coloradans died due to opioid overdose in another record year…
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A view of Colorado’s opioid-abuse crisis from the frontline in Pueblo
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ColoradoPolitics.com and other news media have reported extensively on efforts by the 2017 legislature to tackle the rampant abuse of opioids across Colorado; notably, a pilot program authored by two Democratic state lawmakers from Pueblo was OK’d by their peers and signed into law by the governor. Senate Bill 74, sponsored by Sen. Leroy Garcia…
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Colorado’s Coffman joins other attorneys general in fight opioid drugmakers’ tactics
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Colorado’s Cynthia Coffman is joining a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general to investigate whether drug manufacturers’ marketing contribute to the opioid addiction crises in their states. Coffman talked of swords and shields. “Every day our country and state lose loved ones to the opioid epidemic,” Coffman said in a statement Thursday morning. “My office…
