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Beshear: Company flooded KY with opioids Unsealed court records show Manchester, KY, a town of about 1,400 residents, received 9,500 doses of oxycodone per month. By Crystal Staley/Kenneth Mansfield Frankfort, KY - A judge has agreed with a request from Attorney General Andy Beshear to unseal court documents that reveal specific data on how one opioid manufacturer flooded the state with nearly 900 million dosage units of opioids over a six-year period. Beshear filed a motion in Madison Circuit Court in August to unseal previously redacted information in his complaint against Missouri-based manufacturer Mallinckrodt. A judge entered the order this week. The information was originally sealed to comply with subpoena procedure employed in the investigation and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration database, which was released to the public this summer following a federal opioid case in Ohio. "Kentuckians can now see why I have taken aggressive action against Mallinckrodt," Beshear said. "For 10 years, this company distributed almost 30% of all opioids in the Commonwealth. It blatantly disregarded red flags, filling large, suspicious orders, and used its salesforce to skyrocket addiction and ravage our people for profit." Previously redacted information in the complaint, now available after Beshear's filing, includes:
Last month, Beshear's office won another motion to unseal court records revealing data showing how the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical manufacturer Janssen pressed physicians to prescribe its drugs, Duragesic and Nucynta at higher doses and worked to overcome physicians' reluctance to prescribe these opioid drugs and they were "not only for cancer patients." A Fayette Circuit Court judge entered an order in another case brought by Besehar to unseal court documents in August revealing data about pharmaceutical manufacturer Teva. The documents showed how Teva persuaded physicians to prescribe its drugs, Actiq and Fentora, to treat chronic pain despite the drugs being approved only for breakthrough pain in cancer patients. Among other opioid companies, Teva sold the majority of opioids in grams in Kentucky from 2006 to 2014. Beshear's office defeated the ninth straight motion to dismiss filed by an opioid manufacturer or distributor in Kentucky courts in July when distributor Cardinal Health's motion to dismiss was denied. This story was posted on 2019-10-20 07:59:02
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