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State Boards of Pharmacy Missing in Action During Opioid Crisis

Policy Prescription

state boards of pharmacy to properly regulate pharmacies that irresponsibly and too often illegally profited from opioid drug sales to patients. So, where was the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy? This post should serve as the beginning of a serious inquiry into the failure of U.S. It’s really straightforward.

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Another RICOdiculous Decision

Drug & Device Law

Nonetheless, the Ninth Circuit’s PATDC82 I allowed a RICO claim alleging that, between 1999 and 2011, defendants concealed that risk from the FDA and that, as a result, every TPP in the country paid for Actos prescriptions that it otherwise would not have reimbursed. 341 (2001). But the FDA has concluded just the opposite.

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Beating FDCA-Based Negligence Per Se Claims on Non-Preemption Grounds

Drug & Device Law

341 (2001) (a Bone Screw case). Plaintiffs constantly seek to create FDCA violations that do not exist, often through bizarre interpretations of FDA regulations that the FDA has never followed. Alcozar , like Disarro , involved claims relating to drug impurities, what the FDA calls “adulteration.”