Experts and advocates say the litigation ignores the fact that the increasingly toxic illicit drug supply is what’s driving drug poisonings, not prescription medications.
A British Columbia-led lawsuit against more than 40 pharmaceutical companies has resulted in a proposed $150-million settlement with Purdue Pharma Canada for health-care costs related to the company’s marketing of opioid pain medications.
“Holding multinational pharmaceutical companies and their consultants to account for their role in this public health emergency is the right thing to do.” “Right now, people are not dying from prescription drugs… they’re dying from the street supply, which is illegal and unregulated,” said Garth Mullins, a board member for the British Columbia Association of People on Methadone. “This isn’t an opioid crisis about pharmaceuticals,” she said.
Data from the BC Coroners Service shows that opioids other than fentanyl and its analogues were present in only 22.5 per cent of deaths since 2019 — the vast majority of which also had illicit substances present. About 10 years ago, concerns about the over-prescription of opioid pain medications rose as an opioid epidemic swept through North America, leading to mass de-prescribing by physicians.
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