Tournament: La Vernia | Round: Finals | Opponent: Taylor Tate | Judge: Panel
Drug Overdoes from addictive opioids are rooted in patents – they incentivize companies to aggressively market and overprescribe them which leads to huge amounts of people becoming addicted
Vertinsky 8-2 ~Liza Vertinsky, Associate Professor, Project Leader for Global Health Law and Policy Project, Global Health Faculty Fellow, Emory University School of Law, 8-2-2021, "To Address the Overdose Epidemic, Tackle Pharma Industry Influence" The Harvard Law Petrie-Flom Center, Accessed 8-18-2021, https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2021/08/02/opioids-pharma-regulatory-capture/ ww
A recently released government report estimates that 93,000 people died from drug overdose
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/or provide greater resources and rewards for regulating in the public interest.
Patents created the opioid crisis – Patents reward companies that make addictive drugs, and market exclusivity allows for aggressive marketing that allowed over prescription of opioids.
Hemel and Ouellette 20~Daniel J Hemel, Assistant professor of law and Ronald H.Coase Research scholar@ university of Chicago law school. Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Associate professor of law and Justin M. January-June 2020, "Innovation institutions and the opioid crisis" Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 7, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsaa001 ww
Opioid overdoses killed an estimated 46,802 people in the US in 2018.
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lessons we can learn from the opioid crisis for innovation policy more broadly.
IPP rewards addictive medicines and punishes alternative medicines – the plan shifts patients towards non addictive meds through reducing the amount of opioids
Hemel and Ouellette 20~Daniel J Hemel, Assistant professor of law and Ronald H.Coase Research scholar@ university of Chicago law school. Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Associate professor of law and Justin M. January-June 2020, "Innovation institutions and the opioid crisis" Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 7, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsaa001 ww
While our primary focus in this article is on the ways in which America's innovation
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that the grass is not always greener on the non-market side.
Hemel and Ouellette 20~Daniel J Hemel, Assistant professor of law and Ronald H.Coase Research scholar@ university of Chicago law school. Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Associate professor of law and Justin M. January-June 2020, "Innovation institutions and the opioid crisis" Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 7, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsaa001 ww
In the early 1990s, MS Contin, a controlled-release form of morphine
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contain the epidemic had it been more widely distributed: Suboxone and Evzio.
Hemel and Ouellette 20~Daniel J Hemel, Assistant professor of law and Ronald H.Coase Research scholar@ university of Chicago law school. Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Associate professor of law and Justin M. January-June 2020, "Innovation institutions and the opioid crisis" Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 7, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsaa001 ww
Conventionally, innovation scholars have focused on patent law as the main policy tool to
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of the opioid crisis. Policymakers will need to look elsewhere for solutions.
TAF 20 ~The Arnold Foundation "'Evergreening' Stunts Competition, Costs Consumers and Taxpayers" Published: September 24, 2020~ ~https://www.arnoldventures.org/stories/evergreening-stunts-competition-costs-consumers-and-taxpayers/~~ ~TAF: Philanthropy dedicated to tackling problems in the US. Team of more than 90 subject matter experts in Houston, with offices in New York and DC.~
As the Evergreen Drug Patent Search makes clear, the positive impact of Hatch-
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billions of dollars while increasing the incentives for pharmaceutical companies to achieve breakthroughs."
Foley 17~Katherine Ellen Foley, a health reporter for Quartz based in Washington, D.C. She holds an M.A. in journalism from NYU's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP 33), and her undergraduate degree is from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where she studied science, tech and international affairs, 11-18-2017, "Big Pharma is taking advantage of patent law to keep OxyContin from ever dying" Quartz, Accessed 7-21-2021, https://qz.com/1125690/big-pharma-is-taking-advantage-of-patent-law-to-keep-oxycontin-from-ever-dying/ ww
The US opioid epidemic seems to many to have come out of nowhere, and
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generics. No word on when that document will be published, however.
The Standard is maximizing expected well-being –
1~ Binding – pain and pleasure are the only things with intrinsic value and disvalue – if I put my hand on a hot stove I will pull away – ethics must be binding bc if they arent then it's impossible to generate obligations
3~ Probability first – risk logic creates infinite deferral and implodes in on itself.
Oliver Kessler and Christopher Daase 4-1-2008 – Kessler has a PhD in International Relations and is a professor of sociology at The University of Bielefeld. Daase is a professor at the department of political science at the University of Munich. ~"From Insecurity to Uncertainty: Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics", Accessible Online at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030437540803300206?journalCode=alta~~ @ AG
The problem of the second method is that it is very difficult to "calculate
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prevail than in situations where security problems can be assessed with relative certainty.
4~ Existential threats distort moral reasoning and ignore ongoing and urgent violence.
Olson '15 – prof of geography @ UNC Chapel Hill (Elizabeth, 'Geography and Ethics I: Waiting and Urgency,' Progress in Human Geography, vol. 39 no. 4, pp. 517-526)
III The body and the emergency Though the body is often presumed to be the
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as fertile ground for radical critique, a truly fierce urgency for now.
5~ Maximization through moderation – the best way to stop extinction is by small changes – a more equal, more democratic, less addicted to opioids society is less susceptible to extinction and is the best way to solve – logically if 1 action could stop extinction people would've already done it
1~ 1ar theory is legit, DTD, CI, No RVI's and the highest layer of the round–
A~ The neg could be infinitely abusive in the 1nc and I would have no recourse which makes it impossible for the aff to win
B~ They shouldn't get an RVI because it encourages them to bait theory in the 1nc and prep it out which makes allows for abuse to be encouraged because they will win it every time.