{"id":22753,"date":"2019-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/15\/company-reaches-1-4-billion-settlement-in-opioid-treatment-investigation\/"},"modified":"2019-07-16T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T16:07:42","slug":"company-reaches-1-4-billion-settlement-in-opioid-treatment-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/15\/company-reaches-1-4-billion-settlement-in-opioid-treatment-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Reaches &#36;1.4 Billion Settlement in Opioid Treatment Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Settlement the largest in U.S. history in a case involving an opioid medication<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, July 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A drug company has reached a $1.4 billion settlement with the U.S. government over an investigation into the company&#8217;s marketing and sales of a prescription drug used to treat opioid addiction.<\/p>\n<p>From 2010 through 2014, the Reckitt Benckiser Group or its subsidiaries mishandled the marketing or improperly controlled the pricing of the drug Suboxone (buprenorphine and naloxone), government officials alleged, <i>CNN<\/i> reported. In a statement, Reckitt Benckiser said it has &#8220;has acted lawfully at all times and expressly denies all allegations that it engaged in any wrongful conduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drug manufacturers marketing products to help opioid addicts are expected to do so honestly and responsibly,&#8221; Jody Hunt, assistant attorney general in the Civil Division of the U.S. Justice Department, said in a department news release.<\/p>\n<p>This settlement is the largest in U.S. history in a case involving an opioid medication, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/12\/health\/opioid-lawsuit-reckitt-benckiser-bn\/index.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CNN<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-obtains-14-billion-reckitt-benckiser-group-largest-recovery-case\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Information: DOJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settlement the largest in U.S. history in a case involving an opioid medication<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-22753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}