Massachusetts accuses Purdue Pharma of ‘deceiving’ patients and doctors about the addictive and deadly risks of drug
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 in a case brought by the Massachusetts attorney general, Maura Healey. The case accuses the company and its executives of “deceiving” patients and doctors about the addictive and deadly risks of the groundbreaking narcotic pills.
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