- Purdue Pharma LP has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusing the OxyContin painkiller maker of helping fuel an opioid abuse epidemic, a person familiar with the matter said.
The settlement with Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter came just weeks before Purdue, owned by members of the wealthy Sackler family, was set to face the first trial to result from around 2,000 lawsuits nationally against opioid manufacturers. But a trial judge earlier this month rejected the companies’ efforts to delay the trial, and on Monday, Oklahoma’s Supreme Court rejected their appeal of that decision.
Opioids, including prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl, were involved in a record 47,600 overdose deaths in 2017 in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
AntiTrumpReport $270 times 50 states sounds fair.
Thankfully, after these settlements, companies like Purdue and Philip Morris can continue on doing business like nothing ever happened. (Sarcasm font)
These companies need to go down. Settlements absolve them of actual consequences because they have mountains of cash. States should bring all applicable criminal charges including murder, just like some of the prescribing physicians face.
trump's wall would've prevented this
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