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09/05/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

The company behind America’s opioid epidemic pleaded guilty to felony crimes a decade ago, yet is still allowed to sell products across America

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates that nearly 150 Americans now die from a drug overdose each day. In the past decade, opioid overdoes have quadrupled, as have sales of prescription opioid painkillers. There are now more deaths attributable to drug overdoses than a combination of gun homicides and car crashes. At least 1,000 people receive […]

03/16/2017 / By Vicki Batts

City files landmark lawsuit against the makers of OxyContin

OxyContin has practically become synonymous with the opioid epidemic currently plaguing the United States. The infamous drug’s manufacturer, Purdue Pharma, reportedly reeled in over $3 billion in profits from OxyContin by 2010 — but these profits have come with a deadly price. In 2015, over 15,000 people died from an overdose involving a prescribed opioid […]

02/06/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

WA city taking OxyContin drug maker to court over “gross negligence, creating a public nuisance, and other misconduct”

City lawyers in Everett, Washington are preparing to sue the makers of OxyContin, a leading opioid painkiller, blaming it for its role in the United States’ opioid and heroin epidemic. The city filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma claiming they knew the drug was being illegally trafficked to residents and did not act to stop […]

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