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WVU in the News: How judges added to the grim toll of opioids

July 1, 2019 School of Medicine News
WVU in the News: How judges added to the grim toll of opioids

For years, they sealed evidence about the risks as the body count mounted. And as a Reuters analysis found, it’s only one of many big product-liability cases in which judges have countenanced a lethal and often unlawful secrecy.

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