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	Podcast:		World Business Report
	Episode:		Update: US pharma industry hit with opioid lawsuits
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		0
	Publish Date:		2018-02-22 17:25:00
	Description:		The city of Brunswick, Ohio has joined hundreds of other jurisdictions across the United States to file a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical companies that make opioids. The epidemic of addiction has caused an extraordinary number of fatalities. We hear from Dr Richard Blondell, Professor of Family Medicine at the University at Buffalo in upstate New York and we also get the view of the man charged with overseeing the plethora of lawsuits against the opioid makers - District Judge Dan Polster of Cleveland, Ohio. On the markets, it was a tough day for social media company Snap which owns the app, Snap Chat. Shares in the company fell more than 8.4% following a tweet from one of its celebrity users, Kylie Jenner. Cary Leahy from Decision Economics explains what happened.
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