DES MOINES — Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller joined 38 state and territory attorneys general calling on congressional leaders to promptly pass measures to help hold opioid manufacturers accountable for their role in the opioid epidemic and stem diversion.
“We have seen opioid manufacturers ignore their responsibilities,” the letter signed by Miller says. “… The consequences of turning a blind eye to suspicious opioid orders cannot merely be a cost of doing business.”
The bipartisan coalition sent a letter to chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the Judiciary Committee — including Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa — urging them to pass the S.2456, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) 2.0 and S.2440, the Comprehensive Addiction Reform, Education, and Safety (CARES) Act.
Opioid manufacturers have a duty to ensure that they take steps to prevent drugs from entering the illicit market. Among other provisions, CARA 2.0 and the CARES Act increase penalties on drug manufactures that fail to report suspicious transactions and maintain effective controls against diversion of their drugs to the illicit market. The bills would increase the civil penalty from $10,000 to $100,000 per violation for negligence in reporting suspicious activity and double the criminal penalty to $500,000 for companies that willfully disregard or knowingly fail to keep proper reporting systems or fail to report suspicious activity.
As the letter notes, Purdue Pharma promised as part of a 2007 court order to create an abuse and diversion detection program to detect and report atypical prescribing patterns. Despite the order, Purdue has remained silent about suspicious prescribing activity it should have reported, including ignoring the warnings of their own sales representatives about particular physicians.
The letter is one part of Miller’s efforts to hold opioid manufacturers responsible for the public health crisis they helped create. In addition, the Iowa attorney general is playing a major role in a multistate, bipartisan investigation of manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioid drugs.
In addition to Miller, the letter was signed by attorneys general from Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia and Washington.
In the private sector Pelosi would only be qualified as a restroom professional at a midwest cow pie throwing contest – this is the best the liberals have ? A SKITZO ! Unbelievable ! Then of course you have to have Trump bring Harvey (wall banger Weinerstein)) all the way across America to Trumps state of New York to jail this buzzard because the state of California won’t do it > MAGA!
You’re such a dumbass.
The reason that he was arrested in NY & not California is because the two rape charges were commited in NY.
Try to think or do some research before you open your idiotic mouth.
And Trump had nothing to do with any of it.
I repeat, you are such a freakin dumbass. and being a dumbass is the only thing that you are qualified for.
The whole damn bunch is corrupt – all the government health departments are in bed with the big pharma companies sponsored by most of our elected officials who have been in bed with them and their lobbyists for decades – Follow the money trail – sad that these people have so much power – some of the required school shots turn out to be deadly or life changing such as autism. Most people are aware of this abuse but are silenced by the money and power these big companies have over our elected officials because of the dark money involved.
Call it a deep state. Fooligans running amuck with there programmed desires. Rule by laws enacted with little foresight into it’s implications. Such is the nature of America. We do pretty good at the standard of living by and large. And to sprewing forth one own wisdom is golden!
Whatever happened to personal responsibility.
Ask the libs. Especially Bill and Hillary and Obama. And you know who et al.
Yes, those irresponsible people who broke a leg or suffer from arthritis. How dare they become addicted to drugs? Take some responsibility. It’s your fault you broke your leg! It’s your fault you have arthritis! Why doesn’t the President take responsibility for all the ways he is screwing over the American people? Or the way he screwed over his wife? or his workers? or his country?
You are a total Dumb Ass and a whiner. People with arthritis (I have it and my wife has it) do not need opioid’s. Damn sissy liberals are the ones who need them. People with some cancers need help and can use long term medication’s. You are making excuses for cry baby libraterds with no guts so the take drugs. The President has nothing to do with it. Stand up and take responsibility for your life for a change. Time to leave your safe space.
You’re a dumb ass moron. One of my best friends has rheumatoid arthritis and is prescribed opioids to combat his pain. If you could read, you would know that drug companies in this country are complicit in this crisis. They chose not to follow laws that would prevent doctors from over prescribing opioids and shipped hundreds of thousands of opioids to pharmacies that had no legitimate reason to order as many as they did. You made the comment about personal responsibility. The President has none. He takes no responsibility for anything that happens unless it is a good result. Then, it is all his doing. If it has negative results, it is someone else’s fault. Don’t be a hypocrite. Oh wait, that is your favorite thing to be.
Why do you have to make everything political, you stupid old goat?
This article is nothing about all your dumbass political rants.
You claim to be an “independent” yet you always denigrate liberals.
You are nothing more than a hypocrite and a worthless old geezer.
Just do all of NI and your ashamed & embarrassed family a favor and “check-out”.
Vote Democrat. Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House.
That woman should be hing for being a traitor to our country.
Good. I hope they do. The American drug companies are just another cartel but with suits and ties.