Methotrexate is a cheap, common drug prescribed to millions of Americans. Yet few are aware that it is used off-label to end ectopic pregnancies, or that it could be restricted by doctors or pharmacists.
A constellation of drug companies went after the DEA, and the DEA lost that war, not to the cartels, but to lobbyists and lawmakers and K Street attorneys.
Democrats are trying again to enact government price negotiations for prescription drugs, with a revised plan that would be wrapped into a broader reconciliation bill.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal judge on Monday ruled in favor of three major U.S. drug distributors in a landmark lawsuit that accused them of causing a health crisis by distributing 81 million pills over eight years in one West Virginia county ravaged by opioid addiction.