Purdue Pharma LP has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusin...
- 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.
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