Big Pharma and Advertising By Bryan Silver *The following is an excerpt from an article “The Medicating of America,” published in Living Safer Magazine and The Legal Examiner. So when did this all start? You need to go back a few decades, but there was a time when pharmaceutical companies did no direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription [...]
Sackler Brothers and Oxycontin By Bryan Silver *The following is an excerpt from an article “The Medicating of America,” published in Living Safer Magazine and The Legal Examiner. After moderate success at manufacturing over the counter type remedies, the Sackler brothers used their backgrounds in medicine to “tweak” a drug that had been around since 1917. [...]
The Company That Fueled It All By Bryan Silver *The following is an excerpt from an article “The Medicating of America,” published in Living Safer Magazine and The Legal Examiner. One Company Fueled America’s Opioid Epidemic To better understand the potential for abuse in the pharmaceutical industry, it might help to look at the havoc [...]
The Medicating of America What Pharmaceutical Companies Don’t Want You To Know By Bryan Silver *The following is an excerpt from an article published in Living Safer Magazine and The Legal Examiner. There’s no denying that big pharma means big business—but the big question is, “who is the real benefactor?” While treating America’s ills seems [...]
After losing its effort to have the entire United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals undo the legal agreement it made, BP lost no time in declaring it would ask the United States Supreme Court to do so. On top of that, by early Thursday afternoon, BP had formally asked that the United States Fifth Circuit [...]
If you believed BP, you would think that Patrick Juneau, the court-appointed claims administrator, is passing out BP’s money to undeserving claimants willy-nilly. But the facts, as history has shown in this litigation, do not support BPs spin. The claims administrator just released his monthly report. Table 4 tells the tale of the tape. Table [...]
Named after the fertile red soil in its river bed, the Red River is deeply intertwined with Louisiana history. Both Shreveport and Bossier City were founded on the banks of the river, as were Alexandria and Pineville. Following the clearing of the Great Raft, the Red River was made navigable and greatly stimulated Louisiana commerce [...]