Article
Foreword: A Rot in Heaven: A Powerful Investigative Partnership, the Opioid Crisis, Pill Profits, and a Pulitzer Prize
Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy
(2018)
Abstract
In the spring of 2018, the Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy hosted the "Healing Appalachia: The Role of Professionals in Solving the Opioid Crisis" symposium. This Foreword pays tribute to the symposium’s keynote speakers, journalist Eric Eyre and WVU College of Law faculty member Pat McGinley. Eric, with the support of Pat, Suzanne Weise, another WVU faculty member, and others, uncovered the shocking data that appeared in a series of articles that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. It also introduces the symposium program, provides a summary of the more than 400 lawsuits pending against corporations that manufacture, distribute, and retail opioids in the consolidated federal Multidistrict Litigation as well as the potential for other claims involving other categories of plaintiffs and defendants, and discusses various developments in the ongoing opioid crisis.
Keywords
- Eric Eyre,
- Opioid Crisis
Disciplines
Publication Date
Summer 2018
Citation Information
Becky Jacobs. "Foreword: A Rot in Heaven: A Powerful Investigative Partnership, the Opioid Crisis, Pill Profits, and a Pulitzer Prize" Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy Vol. 13 (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/becky-jacobs/21/