Fentanyl Supply Chain Accountability Focus of San Francisco City Attorney 2018 Lawsuit

Justice Charles R. Breyer in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California will hear the case Monday 4/25/22 of 

City and County of San Francisco, et al., v. Purdue Pharma L.P., et al.

was originally filed in December 2018 by then City Attorney Dennis J. Herrera who since then has been appointed as the general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Herrera said in December 2018:

"...expects the case to be consolidated with similar cases being heard in a federal court in Ohio. More than 1,000 lawsuits have been filed against Purdue and other drugmakers nationwide in connection with the opioid crisis."

SF City Attorney David Chiu cited statistics, in a press conference, to support his argument of the culpability of "Walgreens, Allergan, Teva, Anda and Endo (have caused) a widespread public nuisance and public emergency. They need to be held accountable.” 

• "There are roughly 163 million prescription opiates in San Francisco per year,
• or 22 pills each for every man, woman and child; 
• about 25 percent of all emergency room visits to San Francisco General are opioid-related, 
• overdoses in the county increased by 478 percent from 2015 to 2020, 
• and in 2020, double the number of people died from opioid overdoses than died from Covid-19."

On April 6, the Drug Enforcement Administration sent out a letter to federal, state and local law enforcement warning of a nationwide spike in fentanyl-related “mass-overdose” deaths.

A February 2021 $26 billion national opioid settlement was not a part of the lawsuit scheduled to be heard Monday 4/25/22.

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