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Donkees

(32,367 posts) Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:11 AM Apr 2018

Senator Sanders introducing bill targeting opioid manufacturers

By Yasmeen Abutaleb, Reuters
April 17, 2018

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would fine opioid drug manufacturers for deceptive marketing and implement the harshest penalties yet on drugmakers found responsible for contributing to the drug epidemic.

The legislation, called the Opioid Crisis Accountability Act of 2018, would ban marketing that falsely suggests an opioid does not have addictive qualities or risks and would fine companies that are found liable for contributing to the epidemic $7.8 billion.

Companies that violate the marketing provision would be fined 25 percent of the profits from their opioid products.

The legislation would also create criminal liability for top executives of pharmaceutical companies that are found to have contributed to the epidemic.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-senator-sanders-introducing-bill-targeting-opioid-manufacturers-133525020.html

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Senator Sanders introducing bill targeting opioid manufacturers (Original Post) Donkees Apr 2018 OP

Bernie Sanders introduces bill to impose jail time for execs behind opioid crisis Donkees Apr 2018 #1

Good.. the real drug dealers. mountain grammy Apr 2018 #2

This is a good thing. What we know is that the pharmaceutical companies lied Autumn Apr 2018 #3

Today I'm introducing legislation to hold the pharmaceutical companies and executives accountable Donkees Apr 2018 #4

Donkees

(32,367 posts)

1. Bernie Sanders introduces bill to impose jail time for execs behind opioid crisis

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Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:15 AM

Apr 2018

By LEV FACHER @levfacher APRIL 17, 2018

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will introduce a bill Tuesday that would impose jail time for pharmaceutical executives whose companies engage in manipulative practices when marketing opioids.

The legislation would impose a 10-year minimum prison sentence and fines equal to an executive’s compensation package if the individual’s company is found to have illegally contributed to the opioid crisis.

The bill outlined a number of mechanisms by which the Department of Health and Human Services could demonstrate such liability, including by mandating written justifications for pill orders that seem medically unreasonable.

Sanders’ new effort is the latest in a spate of opioids-related bills, but takes aim at pharmaceutical companies more explicitly than others. Some version of an opioids-related bill is seen as the last major legislation likely to be pursued on Capitol Hill prior to midterm elections in November.

https://www.statnews.com/2018/04/17/bernie-sanders-bill-jail-opioid-crisis/

mountain grammy

(27,198 posts)

2. Good.. the real drug dealers.

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:18 AM

Apr 2018

Autumn

(46,043 posts)

3. This is a good thing. What we know is that the pharmaceutical companies lied

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 10:04 AM

Apr 2018

about the addictive impacts of opioids they manufactured. They knew how dangerous and addictive these products were, long before it was an epidemic but didn't tell doctors and patients. They should be held accountable.

Donkees

(32,367 posts)

4. Today I'm introducing legislation to hold the pharmaceutical companies and executives accountable