CDC's Opioid Stance Hurts Drug Cos. In Marketing Suits

By Sindhu Sundar (March 16, 2016, 9:37 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest push to decrease the prevalence of opioid painkillers primarily targets the prescribing habits of physicians, but opioid manufacturers will also feel its sting when plaintiffs brandish the high-profile agency's guidelines emphasizing the drugs' addictiveness to argue that their marketing was negligent or deceitful, attorneys say. ...

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