by Patrick Morrisey The importance of defeating the opioid crisis has been — and remains — a top priority for the Attorney General’s Office. For years, our office has used every legal maneuver to stem the flow of unnecessary opioids and ensure that West Virginia’s aggregate ...
Makers and sellers of prescription painkillers will soon begin paying out billions of dollars to settle lawsuits that have accused them of fueling the opioid epidemic. Most recently, more than 40 states have agreed to accept $26 billion from Johnson & Johnson and three big drug ...
MORGANTOWN — Save a Life Day is coming to more than 70 host locations across 17 West Virginia counties to distribute the necessary tools to reverse opioid overdoses. “We encourage everyone to carry naloxone because you never know when you might be in a situation where someone would ...
MORGANTOWN – Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced on Wednesday that his argument before a federal bankruptcy court produced a key shift in the case that will result in West Virginia receiving a larger share of the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy. Morrisey delivered closing arguments in ...
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s choice of lawsuits tends to leave us scratching our heads. Like supporting lawsuits to overturn the 2020 election results in swing states only, or defending rules that discriminate against transgender teens, or trying to strip thousands ...
At the end of July, three drug distributors and one drugmaker settled with a bipartisan group of states’ attorneys general for $26 billion. Distributors Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen and McKesson would contribute a combined $21 billion over 18 years and drugmaker Johnson and Johnson ...