For U.S. consumers who were prescribed Suboxone Film between March 1, 2013 and Feb. 28, 2019, then you are eligible for a potential award from the FTC Opioid Addiction Treatment Suboxone Class Action Lawsuit!
According to the lawsuit, Indivior falsely marketed its Suboxone Film as “less susceptible to accidental pediatric exposure than Suboxone Tablets,” right before a generic version of Suboxone tablets entered the market. Despite the fact that Suboxone Film was the more pricey option, many consumers switched to the brand due to the misleading claims.
So if you are eligible, file a claim by December 1, 2020 to receive your potential award!
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FTC Opioid Addiction Treatment Suboxone Lawsuit
- Claim Form Deadline: December 1, 2020
- Who’s Eligible: U.S. consumers who were prescribed Suboxone Film between March 1, 2013 and Feb. 28, 2019 are eligible to file a claim for this FTC settlement.
- Estimated Amount: Varies
- The payout amount depends on how long the consumer took Suboxone and how many claims are submitted overall.
- Proof of Purchase: Not required at this time. However, consumers are encouraged to save any supporting documents in case the settlement administrator has questions later on.
- Case Name & Number: FTC v. Indivior, Case No. 1:20-cv-00036-JPJ-PMS, and FTC v. Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC, Case No. 1:19-cv-00028, both in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, Abingdon
(Click here to file a claim)
How To File a Claim
- Head over to the FTC Opioid Addiction Treatment Suboxone Claim Form.
- Look over the claim form to see if you are eligible.
- Complete the claim form with your information.
- Submit your claim by December 1, 2020 to receive your potential award!
Bottom Line
U.S. consumers prescribed Suboxone Film between March 1, 2013 and Feb. 28, 2019, you are eligible for a potential award from the FTC Opioid Addiction Treatment Suboxone Class Action Lawsuit!
According to the lawsuit, Indivior engaged in improper business practices that didn’t allow competition thus violating Section 5 of the FTC Act. So if you are eligible, file a claim by the deadline to receive your potential award! Don’t forget to take a look at our full list of Class Action Lawsuit Settlements!
I took gab it took the edge of me it been 5yrs off.I don’t want ever go through with sub.You cannot sleep function skin feel like something was in your skin.I could write a book. They did send me 1700 for over charging me.They mess me up I’m addicted lm function.
Suboxone is one bad drug you have to have it.I was a slave to sub for 10 long yearsutvmess me up teeth my left eye home.I lost my house wife.I lost everything hadn’t recovery yet
Ocwen will pay some day.
Try LUCEMYRA I’m a month off of subs now and this drug is the reason why… I couldn’t believe the effectiveness there really is nothing else like it out their because it a blood pressure med but it also numbs your fight or flight response in your nervous system and it’s made for opiate withdrawals. I had no cold sweets, no body aches, no sneezing. Its insaine and you take them for 14 days! You feel super fatigued but that is to be expected.. Believe me I would have been blowing up my doctors phone if it would have been bad or found another doctors office that was opened and spent a bunch more money ? but instead the medication worked and now I’m FREE!
Try LUCEMYRA to get off the subs. It’s pretty amazing and you only have to take the prescription for 14 day’s!!
Your family physician should be able to prescribe your suboxne. I just found this out myself
Question about payment on debit card I didn’t receive full amount. I got 178 dolllors. Do I keep debit card for. More payment deposits or will you mail additional payment
What about every time I tried to stop this so called non addictive drug a needle instantly back in the arm? Or the hep c ??
Hi Kaity, I have been diagnosed with cancer I had two surgeries and forty radiation treatments also another surgery coming in May of 2021. I was on opiates for five years after a mountain climbing injury Ihad donor bone and rods and screws. In stalled in my backandwas then put on the opiate train . From their to suboxone for now twelve years of the aweful looks filling scrips I always have my wife pick them up. These fckn strips were meant to only help people off opiates not create new addictions the drug companies suck. Well I just spent 30,000 dollars to be drug free in a three days and I can’t wait for my new life to begin. Thats alot of money but I am going to go after the manufacture of this terrible drug. To start with all treatment should be paid for I was never told that subs are harder to get off of than oxy’s
No one is. No one is. I didn’t ask for this crap. I was already clean went detox for 14 days and then treatment and coping skills for 40 days and on the last they told to start taking this crap, and to intake at outpatient once a month.
All I did was complain about how I felt on it. It was ignored repeatedly. I’ve been weaning myself off of it for the last year. It feels like I go through withdrawal symptoms everyday. It’s Terrible.
The sad thing is. When I would complain. They would prescribe me more until my muscles were killing me I couldn’t even walk. I swelled up like a balloon. I still do sometimes my eyes get yellow, it’s painful. And I know it’s because of this crap. You have no voice against these big Pharma Companies. You’re addict as far everyone is concerned and what you say doesn’t mean anything. Unfortunately.
My life sucks. It like a curse.
And response to you Sarah wire certain doctors allowed to prescribe it? It’s because they have to be certified and they have to pay a certain amount of money for a class or a certification that they have to go through and it’s pretty expensive from what I hear but also because Suboxone doctors who can write for it can only have a certain amount of patience under their carrot one time per the federal guidelines. That’s what I gathered from my doctor. I’ve been on them for almost 10 years and I’ve never missed an appointment at 175 a visit and never will and if you care about your sobriety then you just make sure you have your priorities straight! I hope I could help you!
Yikes!! Methadone! Ouch!! I’m not so concerned with the 20 grand I’ve already spent in office visits for the decade I’ve been on Suboxone in fact Suboxone is so far saved my life! I don’t know what long-term ill effects it will have but really have a choice in the matter because I don’t want to be high anymore!! I wish I could wake up one day and never have to take another substance to be normal or feel normal but that’s not going to happen! And for me, Suboxone keeps me sober it keeps me clean I’ve been clean almost 10 years & sure $175 a month is extremely expensive when I make less than $800 a month on disability because I can’t work but that’s not a factor at all because it’s my only choice and I think if you would rather be on methadone than suboxone I feel like you still want to get high and for me that’s just not going to work! I just want big pharma and the Sadler family or whoever created the opiates and didn’t tell me at 12 and 13 and 14 years old when I was having dental surgery and then became a lifelong addict that there was potential for not only abuse and addiction but a lifelong dependency on a substance back in the 80s nobody told us any of that and I feel like it wasn’t something I had control of because it began with surgery and well here I am now! But I guess to each his own anyway but as far as I’m concerned methadone is definitely not a choice in the matter for me period in fact I’m getting ready to go to the hospital right now because I got a concussion and now I’m leaking cerebral brain fluid out of my nose and I have a lot of symptoms such as severe headache I’m dizzy I fall down a lot I’ll slur my words out of nowhere I sleep for two and three days in a row I fall asleep sometimes wherever I am I guess they call it narcolepsy and that was from wearing a mask and not being able to see the curb and I fell flat on my face and I’m pretty sure I fractured my eyebrow bone and I’m scared because I’ve already just located my collarbone and for 4 months I was in excruciating pain because I refused to have pain medication and I’ve also had surgery on a double hernia and I refuse pain medication because if I ever touch another opiate again it will kill me and so I’m a little nervous about going because I don’t want any pain but I also refuse pain medication so I’m nervous but if bacteria gets up my nose because there’s that tear and the barrier between my brain and my skull I guess that makes the fluid leak out of my nose if bacteria gets up my nose I could get meningitis so I really don’t have a choice anymore and become nauseous I’ve already waited several months and so I can’t wait any longer because I have too many side effects or symptoms of a severe concussion that are detrimental to the other health things in my life so I just got to check it up and go so wish me luck! Sorry for butting in anyone’s conversation but for me personally I would never go on any other medication that’s keeps me off of opiates if that medication is still getting me high and I’m sorry methadone gets you high and you can still use drugs on methadone and I feel like people who take this root aren’t looking to get clean. Maybe that’s just me but you don’t get high on Suboxone you live life on suboxone! As best you can given what you’ve got. God bless everybody and whatever is meant to come out of this and whatever is meant for my life Jesus is in control and I just thank God every single day for still being here andgiving me an opportunity to be clean for almost 10 years March 29th 2011 is my 10th year that’s the day I got on Suboxone and I’ve never missed an appointment yet! Every single month I see my doctor and I’ve never missed an appointment! And I never will LOL God bless you all and I hope you stay safe!
I pay $175/mo and have been on them for the past 9 and 1/2 years and I’ve never missed a single appointment. I pay $175 every single month and I have done this since March 29th 2011! I will be on them for the rest of my life. I began using opiates when I was 14 because of dental surgery and I am now 44 and have over 20 year opiate addiction on top of just about 10 years of recovery on Suboxone so my entire life was ruined by either opiates or Suboxone which is basically an opiate. I was hoping that there was someone somewhere somehow someway that would make some company in the big pharma industry pay for the addiction that I believe they are responsible for ruining my life with! Who knew at 13 14 years old back in the ’80s that giving a bottle of painkillers to a child that young who is going through oral surgery would end up with a lifelong addiction and destruction of my life because this big pharma and these greedy money hungry pill pushers wanted to make money off of my pain and suffering and forced me into a lifelong journey of drug addiction?! I have paid over $20,000 alone just in office visits that I had to pay out of my pocket because insurance doesn’t cover and let’s not even get into anything else they’ve stolen from me which is basically my life! I wish I paid $220 every 3 months! But I’m at least glad I’m going to get some form of relief through this class action lawsuit!
It’s nice to know I’m not alone. I feel like these last 7 years have cost me a lifetime! And that 7 years is just way too long to be on Suboxone. Yes it’s 2020, and we’ve come a long way to understand the disease of addiction. Yet still, so many people have such a jaded perception of what an addict is/was. For the first 6 years I was with the same physician that I saw every single month. I never once missed an appointment. I never once failed a drug test-because I stayed clean! I have, however, ruined my teeth! My memory is completely shot! So many situations that my family speaks of that I have no recollection of! I can’t even imagine how much $$$ I’ve spent on Suboxone! I don’t want to be on it-but I also don’t want to be an addict again. A lot of us say that we just traded one drug for another. Yes, Suboxone has given me my life back, but it has also taken so much from me; time, money and energy. Though I am incredibly proud of staying sober for 7 years, I still find it very hard to share my experience with anyone who isn’t/wasn’t an addict. And for that reason, I lie about where I’m going when I have an appointment. I have to do 2 hours of “therapy” a month. My girls think I’m going to “physical therapy “ for my pain in my back and neck. When they are older I hope I can openly share my experience with them-I’m petrified that one of them will have issues with addiction. We all know that a child from an addict has a much higher chance of becoming one!
I never, ever thought that Suboxone would be so addicting. I thought it would be a quick fix-stop using, start Suboxone, get OFF Suboxone and BAM-I’m sober!
So many of us have had our lives completely controlled by this medication! And I’m angry about it! We need a voice! We need someone to stand up for us!
I pay $175 per month and have bee on them for 9.5yrs never missed an appt! I paid over $20,000 just on the office visit and I’m on them for life! I became addicted to opiates at 12 from a dental appointment and on 44 and that began a lifetime addiction to opiates and then I didn’t have years that just passed I have been on Suboxone to stay clean and I’ll be on them for the rest of my life and so opiates ruined my life and my health so this is nice to see that we have an opportunity to at least be compensated for something. I got clean from opiates March 29th 2011 never missed an appointment in the past 9 and 1/2 years I paid $175 a month for the office visit and will continue until the day I die
Seems like you have a problem with the price not so much any potential side affects that may occur you are not making a very good case. If your not satisfied with the product and are afraid that it will cause you long term health problems I suggest you enroll in a local methadone clinic and see how that works out for you. You think suboxone has long term health issues see what a drug like methadone will do to you. Good luck I think your just pissing in the wind but each to his own.
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Can I ask you guys a question how does the receipt look like cause mine don’t have the amount of every time I went and I lost most of them so can someone show me the way the reciept looks like please so i can see which one I need ?
What I would like to know is why Doctors will not take your insurance to pay for office visits to get your prescriptions. It cost 220.00 every 3 months, and if you miss the 3 month appointment they will boot you out to make a space for a new person, so unless you want to start over with a new dr at a higher office visit for the first year you best not miss that appointment time frame. Is crazy, I really like the dr I see , and would like to have him as my PCP but because he is my Suboxone dr he is not allowed to have me as a regular pt. As far as cost for med I had to meat my deductable before my insurance would help with rx cost. I did receive a discount card from my doctor that helped greatly. Next thought is why are only certain doctors allowed to prescribe it?
Thank you for the info. Very good to know…where did you send your letters to that you received the $125? At this point, I will take what ever I can get. And any idea why they’re only going back to 2013? I started on the film back in 2010 & for a total of 5 years, approx, I spent roughly $300-$450/month. So, any penny I can get out of this deal…I’ll take it!
Hang in there! I know the exact same feeling as far as trading one for another. Your case, personally, sounds like you need to pursue an individual, civil case. There are Suboxone attorney’s that are helping patients that went through similar things. Remember, although we’re dependent on whatever type of Buprenorphine we’re taking today…the ability to live a somewhat normal life…work, raise a family, be a productive member of society, get out of bed, & so on. For me, IT HAS been the miracle drug. I personally take Buprenorphine sublingual tablets & have since 2009…at the end of the day I look at it like this…at one time I went to a 30 day rehab to get off of the Suboxone & was successful but I also left on approximately 6-8 different psychoactive meds that made me not only a zombie but a completely different person & was dealing with more than I can count side effects from all of those meds. I eventually went to my PCP instead of my psychiatrist & said I want off of all of it except I need something to help me sleep. I weaned off of everything, started taking Seroquel to sleep & Buprenorphine again. The Bup. for me works for my chronic pain management, my anti-depressant, anti anxiety, & helps me sleep. While I hate the constipation (severe) side effect, my lower extremities swell (rare side effect), & headaches (normal)…the good outweighs the bad. It’s an individual decision, I believe & there is no right/wrong answer. I AM EXTREMELY excited to know that we’re potentially going to get reimbursed some of that $450+ monthly payment.
I too have been on this “miracle drug” & in my case since 7/7/2007. It’s a joke. They promise you that it is the easy way just stop narcotics and in fact you were just trading one medication for another. It is unbelievably expensive. As noted, the side effects can be debilitating and cause organ failure. So, Although I filled out a claim in this class action lawsuit I am reconsidering due to the prices I paid for Suboxone(among other issues). One issue being a doctor that would regularly forget to fill my prescription & use that method as a punishment when he felt I didn’t agree when I didn’t use “the same pharmacy location every single time.” I waited months for an appointment to see a different doctor while going through extended periods waiting for him to remember to or DECIDE to fill my prescription.
I felt like an addict all over again, because I AM physically dependent on suboxone.
When will our claims be settled, I filed a claim last year, and another one a month ago with the f.t.c. indivior PLC and reckitt benckiser are only paying money for blocking generics, what about my liver and kidneys, they paid 1.4 billion dollars and reckitt is paying only 50 million and indivior is paying only 10 million, so here I am addicted to a so called miracle drug that you can not get off of, I got on this drug in 2013 and just got generics prescribed under 2 yrs ago, so 5 yrs at 300.00 a month give or take they owe me, for hard working poor people this is a life changing amount of money, I know whistleblowers 6 of them are or have split 97 million in this case, I guess their organs and life and the states, attorneys lives are worth more than mine, and now I see that mallingkrodt has settled a case in Ohio and are giving free medication to the state, we as the true victims should not have to beg and wait for scraps of the money, I have called and wrote letters showing that indivior and opus health care tried to silence me with a 125.00 check that is what they think of victims, they used a 1-800 number to target addicts and it worked, anyway I pray that my claim is settled soon because the medications I need for my copd is of most importance, and yes this medication Suboxone and buprenorphine causes severe respiratory issues, my medical records will show that, anyway I have my pharmacy records showing that I am owed around 15,000 dollars with this being a class action settlement I sure hope I don’t get the same money as someone who has only been on it for a year or has not developed severe health issues, they lied to the f.d.a. and us the victims, I pray for a fast answer and resolution because my life depends on it, I already lost my only brother to this so called miracle drug!