Major lawsuit alleges Purdue fueled US opioid crisis
OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma Files For Bankruptcy
September 16, 2019
(updated December 27, 2019)
Published by LeeF
Major lawsuit alleges Purdue fueled US opioid crisis
A member of the Sackler family, which owns OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma, told people gathered at the prescription opioid painkiller’s launch party that the event would be “followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition”. Top Purdue figurehead Richard Sackler made the comments in the mid-1990s, according to court documents filed on Tuesday afternoon […]