Purdue Pharma News
Five More States Sue Purdue Over OxyContin Marketing
Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners are being sued by five more states alleging the company's aggressive marketing of the OxyContin painkiller triggered a vast addiction epidemic that has ...
OxyContin Maker Purdue Settles Oklahoma Opioid Case for $270 Million
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and members of the wealthy Sackler family that own the company have reached a $270 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusing Purdue of ...
Liability Twist: Massachusetts Sues Purdue Execs, Directors Over Opioid Crisis
Massachusetts on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma LP, accusing the OxyContin maker of illegally promoting the use of opioids, and became the first state to sue the drugmaker's executives ...
Six More States Sue Purdue Pharma, Alleging It Fuels Opioid Epidemic
Litigation against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is intensifying as six more U.S. states on Tuesday announced lawsuits, accusing the company of fueling a national opioid epidemic by deceptively ...
Drugmakers Reduce Opioid Marketing as Hundreds of Lawsuits Up Pressure
Purdue Pharma LP's decision to stop promoting its opioid drugs to doctors is being hailed as the first result of a judge's push for concrete solutions to a nationwide epidemic, even though the ...