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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013 file photo shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. A report released Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill finds that companies selling some of the most lucrative prescription painkillers funneled millions of dollars to advocacy groups that in turn promoted the medications’ use. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, contributed the most money to the groups, funneling $4.7 million to organizations and physicians from 2012 through last year, according to the report. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Utah attorney general: Purdue Pharma ‘morally bankrupt’

By /September 19, 2019 /Local News

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes is calling OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma a “morally bankrupt” company and heralding that it will be out of the pharmaceutical industry thanks to terms of a tentative settlement with states. Reyes said in a statement Tuesday that said no dollar […]

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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013 file photo shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. A report released Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill finds that companies selling some of the most lucrative prescription painkillers funneled millions of dollars to advocacy groups that in turn promoted the medications’ use. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, contributed the most money to the groups, funneling $4.7 million to organizations and physicians from 2012 through last year, according to the report. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Utah files lawsuit against OxyContin drugmaker Purdue

By /May 31, 2018 /Local News

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has filed a lawsuit accusing manufacturers of the opioid OxyContin of creating a drug abuse epidemic in the state. Attorney General Sean Reyes said Thursday that drugmaker Purdue Pharma misrepresented the risk opioids posed and the likelihood of addiction, amounting to fraud, negligence and […]

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