{"id":6378,"date":"2022-07-29T18:33:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T22:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/?p=6378"},"modified":"2022-07-29T18:33:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T22:33:35","slug":"legal-intelligencer-individual-liability-in-the-opioid-epidemic-an-examination-of-recent-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-individual-liability-in-the-opioid-epidemic-an-examination-of-recent-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Intelligencer: Individual Liability in the Opioid Epidemic: An Examination of Recent Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Throughout the past decade, the country has been battling a raging epidemic and public health crisis: opioid addiction. In 2021, over 80,000 people died from opioid overdoses. Pennsylvania has one of the highest rates of opioid overdose deaths in the country. The crisis in Pennsylvania is so severe that it is decreasing the life expectancy in the commonwealth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the July 29, 2022 edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\">The Legal Intelligencer<\/a>, Edward T. Kang wrote &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2022\/07\/29\/individual-liability-in-the-opioid-epidemic-an-examination-of-recent-developments\/\">Individual Liability in the Opioid Epidemic: An Examination of Recent Developments.<\/a>&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-individual-liability-in-the-opioid-epidemic-an-examination-of-recent-developments\/#more-6378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the past decade, the country has been battling a raging epidemic and public health crisis: opioid addiction. In 2021, over 80,000 people died from opioid overdoses. 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