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- Abbe R Gluck, Ashley Hall, and Gregory Curfman.
- Abbe R. Gluck, J.D., is Professor of Law and Faculty Director at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. Ashley Hall is a student at Yale Law School, Class of 2019. Gregory Curfman, M.D., is Senior Advisor and Physician Scholar in Residence at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School.
- J Law Med Ethics. 2018 Jun 1; 46 (2): 351-366.
AbstractThe devastating impact of the national opioid epidemic has given rise to hundreds of lawsuits. This article details the extremely broad range of legal claims, compares the opioid cases to other public health litigation efforts, including tobacco, and describes the special mechanism - a multidistrict litigation - through which more than 700 opioid-related cases have been consolidated thus far, with settlement almost certain to follow.
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