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Opioid Epidemic Class Action Lawsuit Overview:
- Who: A man who says he was over prescribed OxyContin lodged a class action lawsuit against opioid supplier McKinsey & Company.
- Why: The plaintiff claims McKinsey has helped fuel an opioid epidemic in Canada by misinforming physicians and targeting doctors prone to oversupplying patients with the addictive drugs.
- Where: The class action lawsuit is pending in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
Opioid supplier and global consulting firm McKinsey & Company has been helping fuel an epidemic currently affecting Canada, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Jordan Francis Charlie claims McKinsey consulted opioid manufacturers on how to misinform physicians and get their addictive painkillers into the hands of the doctors prone to over-prescribing.
Charlie wants to represent a Class of Canadian residents who were prescribed and became addicted to opioids since 2002.
The plaintiff says he became addicted to opioids, lost his job, and lost custody of his kids after he was prescribed OxyContin in 2007 following a back injury suffered while working in forestry.
Opioid Manufacturer Faces Lawsuits, Bankruptcy in US
McKinsey reached a settlement worth around $573 million earlier this year with attorneys general from several US states over allegations the company helped push OxyContin offered by Purdue Pharma.
Purdue Pharma has since filed for bankruptcy protection, according to The New York Times.
Charlie claims that, in addition to helping opioid manufacturers nudge doctors to push their drugs on the Canadian population, McKinsey also helped convince manufacturers to look the other way as their painkillers fell in the hands of black market sellers.
Canada is currently the world’s second largest consumer of opioids — behind only the US — and experienced 21,174 opioid-attributed deaths between January 2016 and December 2020, according to the class action lawsuit.
Charlie claims McKinsey is guilty of negligence, breach of consumer protection statutes, conspiracy, unjust enrichment, and healthcare costs.
Have you or someone you know become addicted to opioids after being prescribed them by a doctor in Canada? Let us know in the comments!
The plaintiff is represented by David Sterns, Louis Sokolov, Mishel Logasov, and Adil Abdulla of Sotos LLP and Jody Brown and Geetha Philipupillai of Goldblatt Partners LLP.
The McKinsey & Company Opioid Crisis Class Action Lawsuit is Charlie v. McKinsey & Company Canada, et al., Case No. CV-21-00000365-00CP in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
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Yes I became addicted to OxyContin at least 20 yrs. ago now or longer after being in a few different car accidents. Witch the first time I took them I recall a doctor telling me they were the new best pain reliever they had out there & NEVER ONCE TOLD ME IT WAS ADDICTIVE & once I realized that they were addicted after being on them for quite awhile at this point when I had asked my doc. He told me they weren’t addictive when u first started taking them…Csn u imagine saying that to someone. I said what? How would they go from being non addictive to being addictive did they change &/or add an ingredient in them? Cuz that would be the only way…So after trying many times to get off of it & never was able to seem to shake it mean while I was suffering from chronic pain working waiting tables and bartending.. I anded up having to go on what’s even worse then taken painkillers cuz at least they helped with the pain. So then I’m told that this stuff called Methadone was going to save me it was the Best thing out there for helping people get off opiates. Ya what they don’t tell u is that they pretty much might as well luck u up cuz what u don’t know is that they take complete control of ur life. U have to drive to drug store everyday I had to for pretty much first 2 yrs. & I had to go all the way up to 190 mls & they keep changing the kind & the strength of the methadone so each time makes it even heard to go down. Seeing this great cure for my additional I NEVER EVER asked to and up this way that day I was given that very first prescription… Well now it’s been 13yrs. Next month since I’ve been on just the methadone not counting ALL the yrs. I was on Oxy Cotton & I’m still only down to 107mls. So I’m still stuck under they’re spell as I call it for another 10 yrs. or more. I’m trying to go down but it they don’t stop making it weaker every time they change it I could & would of been off this by now. Then top it all off I was on another bad accident back 9yrs. Ago I crushed One vertebrae any damage to other ones I have 22 rods and four pins put in my back at the time of the accident & then the following year my 4 pins some how all broke I had to have a second surgery to have the little pieces removed but still have the rods in my back but no pins holding them there just there by themselves. So now I’m disabled & am not able to work again. Also the reason I anded up having to take Oxy Cotton was cuz all the acetaminophen from the other pain medicine & Anti-inflammatories the doctors have been giving me was bugging my stomach really bad & was causing me to pass & throw up blood & wasn’t helping with the pain really anyways. So these Oxy Cotton were suppose to be much easier on my stomach witch they that for sure but I’d of rather Went throw that then 20yrs. Or more of hell I’ve been throw since taken these stupid Oxy Cotton. I think these ppl. That made this drug & prescribed or had any doing in passing this drug & allowing it to even be made let along given to ppl. & then lie to them about what it is. & the life I’ve had to live cuz of it & then now the methadone is even worse then that & I get treated like shit & made out to be some kind of big drug accident cuz I’m on it get treated like shit by doc. At the emergency when I broke my back. The way he treated me was out of this world never been used that way or spoken to ever by anyone like that like I did that evening & the doc. only started treating me that way once I was honest with him & told him I I was on methadone shortly after arriving to the emergency by ambulance and after that I was like the biggest drug addict going and got treated like shit. The lady that brought me in, in the ambulance even told him If you seen the accident she was eating you shouldn’t be taken me off backboard I was on til I went for X~Rays & Doc. Told her that she did her job getting me to the hospital & that she could leave and let him do his job. So she apologized to me for his actions & also cuz she had to go & leave me there alone. Then he proceeded to take me off the backboard & put me on a stretcher and then sent me for x-rays witch was hell. But anyways this isn’t for that at all. It’s just giving u of an idea what we have to go throw & deal with on a regular basis when ppl. Are on Methadone or any other kind of painkillers but especially Methadone Which makes no sense because methadone is a sign of getting help for yourself you think it would be proud of you but instead they look at you in a different light you’re negative one.. so please help us & help so many never have to deal with what millions of us have had to for yrs. now. Thank you for taking the time to read this & this is only a little piece of my story so much more then that.
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Started being prescribed t4 then codiene then a steady increase of morphine, oxy, benzos, alll the way up to the strongest dose allowed to be perscribed, for sore back and headeaches, which lead to huge addiction problems and now going on 8 years of methadone, which has been very hard, and lost my Girl of ten years to an opiate overdose 3 months ago from same situation. My life is Hell. And I’m only 33 , and she was 32. Might as well see if you respond back or able to help since this has destroyed so much more than anything else and I’m suffering while they comfy and rich . So evil
Yes my doctor prescribed me opioids because I had a very rare diagnosis not sure what it was called but I had stones in my right glan under my chin and for a year and a half I was given opioids and told when the pain was gone I would no longer need them I was told that they were not addictive and had nothing to worry about as long as I was talking them for my pain they let me go for a about two years giving me more and more to take at one point I was prescribed 24 to 30 perks a day they finally DId surgery and had to remove my right Glan because it was so impacted with stones since then I have had nothing but problems with opioids my marriage broke up and I lost my job I have been struggling ever since when the surgery was done my doctor gave me a script of fifty pills and told me that I wouldn’t need pain pills any more but I found myself back at his office two days later cause I had none he was giving me like thirty a day I couldn’t function at all without them I tried methadone and that is just as bad I have been on it now for over ten years and everytime I try and get off it I find myself back on opioids it’s a really vicious circle I am someone who had never ever did any drugs and I have never even drank I trusted my doctor and the pharmaceutical companies that if you only took these pain pills for pain that when the pain was gone you wouldn’t need the pills that couldn’t of been further from the truth your body get’s dependent on the opioids and you can not funtion as the person you once we’re it’s been over fifteen Twenty years now and I still am not the person I was before being given opioids it’s the people who make these drugs and know the repercussions of taking them but don’t care how they ruin people’s lives as long as they are making money at the expense of human human beings they lie. And Tell you that it’s okay and you trust them after all they are the pharmaceutical companies they’re approved it must be true they won’t hurt you they will only help you they’ve ruined my life completely thank you please add me to your list
Yes my doctor prescribed me opioids because I had a very rare diagnosis not sure what it was called but I had stones in my right glan under my chin and for a year and a half I was given opioids and told when the pain was gone I would no longer need them I was told that they were not addictive and had nothing to worry about as long as I was talking them for my pain they let me go for a about two years giving me more and more to take at one point I was prescribed 24 to 30 perks a day they finally DId surgery and had to remove my right Glan because it was so impacted with stones since then I have had nothing but problems with opioids my marriage broke up and I lost my job I have been struggling ever since when the surgery was done my doctor gave me a script of fifty pills and told me that I wouldn’t need pain pills any more but I found myself back at his office two days later cause I had none he was giving me like thirty a day I couldn’t function at all without them I tried methadone and that is just as bad I have been on it now for over ten years and everytime I try and get off it I find myself back on opioids it’s a really vicious circle I am someone who had never ever did any drugs and I have never even drank I trusted my doctor and the pharmaceutical companies that if you only took these pain pills for pain that when the pain was gone you wouldn’t need the pills that couldn’t of been further from the truth your body get’s dependent on the opioids and you can not funtion as the person you once we’re it’s been over fifteen Twenty years now and I still am not the person I was before being given opioids it’s the people who make these drugs and know the repercussions of taking them but don’t care how they ruin people’s lives as long as they are making money at the expense of human human beings they lie. And Tell you that it’s okay and you trust them after all they are the pharmaceutical companies they’re approved it must be true they won’t hurt you they will only help you they’ve ruined my life completely thank you
Yes a car accident left me with a broken back and I was given lots of prescriptions and when they decided i didn’t need them they stopped cold not ever saying addictive complete opposite because of pain I wouldn’t get addicted well still need them but must buy them now and it dangerous because they van make fake pills
I was chased and run over by a crazy girl driving a stolen truck. Did 6 months hospital in 2013, unable to walk properly to date. Still in lawsuit with Intact Insurance as they failed to pay section B benefits, but badly need a lawyers help,
I live on OxyContin pills, and am addicted to them since 2013, and now suffering a ton of side effects. They do not control my 24 hr pain, but they help a little bit. I’m afraid of withdrawal, and fear I would be suicidle if I tried to quit.
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Please include me in your class action lawsuit. I was prescribed opioids for migraines in the early 2000’s and am still fighting the addiction today.