For many addicts of strong painkillers, Suboxone Movie seemed to be a hope. The preparation, so the expectation, could free her from her addiction. But in the sold over the British consumer goods group Reckitt Benckiser funds is even an opioid, which apparently also makes dependent.
Reckitt Benckiser
It is one of several comparisons with which pharmaceutical companies try to avert complex and possibly expensive analgesic processes by means of comparisons. Only a few days ago, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and Teva entered into agreements - and together they are expected to pay tens of millions. Previously, Johnson & Johnson had also made a settlement in the case, but had been sentenced in the US state of Oklahoma to a fine of 572 million dollars.
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In the case of Reckitt Benckiser also customers and the state health insurance Medicaid have been deceived. Indivior, according to the authorities, billions of dollars in revenue struck by doctors and health insurers have made believe that his drug is safer as a film-coated tablet and cause less dependence. In July, the company had already made a $ 1.4 billion settlement with the US Department of Justice and the FTC to market this opioid-containing drug.
In the US, over 400,000 people have died of an overdose in recent years. In 2018, the number of drug-related deaths in the United States had dropped for the first time in two decades. According to US health authorities, around 68,600 people died of an overdose in 2018, and in 2017 there were approximately 72,200 deaths. In particular, the company Purdue Pharma - known as the manufacturer of the infamous painkiller Oxycontin - was advised because of the addiction problem in the criticism.
