The Opioid Documents: A Report on the Politics of the Public Record
The Opioid Documents: A Report on the Politics of the Public Record
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阿片类药物文件：关于公共记录政治的报告
DOI：
10.1086/713409
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发表时间：
2021
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通讯作者：
Lentacker, Antoine
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作者：
Lentacker, Antoine
正在进行的阿片类药物诉讼中的律师已经从药物制造商，分销商和药房获得了数百万份文件，这些文件被指责为阿片类药物危机的破坏。如果诉讼得到解决，这些文件将如何处理？它们会成为记忆中最严重的人为公共卫生灾难之一的公共档案吗？或者他们会被锁起来，也许是永久的？为了寻找答案，这篇文章追溯了法院在塑造毒品公共记录方面的作用的更长历史。它讨论了什么是最近的学术对制药和制药知识欠过去的诉讼对制药业，但也强调了一些力量，侵蚀了公共记录在科学和法律的舞台在过去的几十年。我认为，这些力量在阿片类药物的情况下已经汇合，对秘密诉讼公共卫生问题的影响提出了紧迫的问题。
Lawyers in the ongoing opioid litigation have obtained millions of documents from the drug manufacturers, distributors, and pharmacies blamed for the ravages of the opioid crisis. What will happen to these documents if the suits are settled? Will they form a public archive of one of the worst man-made public health disasters in memory? Or will they remain locked away, perhaps permanently? In search for answers, this piece traces a longer history of the role of the courts in shaping the public record on drugs. It discusses what the recent scholarship on pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical knowledge owes to past litigation against the drug industry, but also highlights some of the forces that have eroded the public record in both the scientific and legal arenas over the last few decades. These forces, I argue, have converged in the case of opioids, raising urgent questions about the implications of litigating public health issues in secret.