Drug companies aren't apologizing for the opioid crisis because 'a lot of what they did was totally legal,' says law professor Leo Beletsky

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'The pharmaceutical industry is being scapegoated for something where there's plenty of blame to go around,' says Northeastern University's Leo Beletsky.

Drug companies are starting to settle thousands of civil suits across the U.S. for their role in the opioid epidemic. Their regulatory and marketing practices allowed millions of pills to slip into illegal markets and encouraged physicians to prescribe the painkillers in mass quantities, according to plaintiffs. Meanwhile, people developed substance use disorders by the millions and overdosed by the hundreds of thousands.

."Of course, there are individual people who clearly did illegal and unethical things, but that's not where the tens of thousands of deaths are coming from."

 

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