{"id":2491,"date":"2018-07-20T18:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T22:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/opioid-litigation-moves-forward-in-ny\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:27:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:27:45","slug":"opioid-litigation-moves-forward-in-ny","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/whitepapers\/opioid-litigation-moves-forward-in-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Opioid Litigation Moves Forward in NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suits claim the businesses fueled the <a href=\"\/office-of-governmental-affairs-opioid-lawyers\/\">opioid epidemic<\/a> through a fraudulent marketing campaign that misrepresented the drugs&#8217; safety and effectiveness. They seek compensation for the governmental costs of dealing with opioid addiction, which include higher expenditures on Medicaid, rehabilitation programs, law enforcement and even a greater number of autopsies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/napoli-attorney\/paul-napoli\/\">Paul Napoli<\/a> of <a href=\"\/our-locations\/new-york-city\/\">Manhattan&#8217;s<\/a> Napoli Shkolnik and one of the lead attorneys for the counties, said he hopes the trials can go forward as soon as next spring. &#8220;This has had a significant financial impact on counties throughout the state,&#8221; Napoli said, adding that there is considerable evidence that &#8220;these drug pushers&#8221; acted fraudulently in promoting the painkillers. &#8220;We&#8217;re seeing more and more culpability,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suits claim the businesses fueled the opioid epidemic through a fraudulent marketing campaign that misrepresented the drugs&#8217; safety and effectiveness. They seek compensation for the governmental costs of dealing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":390,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[75,101],"whitepaper-source":[97],"class_list":["post-2491","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-opioids-litigation","whitepaper_category-new-york-opioid-lawyers","whitepaper-source-new-york-newsday"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}