VA Attorney General sues Purdue, maker of Oxycontin, for opioid crisis

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Va. AG Herring sues Purdue Pharma, maker of Oxycontin, blaming i..

RICHMOND — Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing
Purdue Pharma of creating the opioid crisis through an illegal profit-making scheme.

Filed in a state courthouse in Virginia’s opioid-ravaged far southwest, the complaint
alleges the company violated the Virginia Consumer Protection Act with “false claims
about the purported safety, efficacy and benefits of its opioids, including OxyContin.”

It also accuses the company of creating an unlawful public nuisance. The suit seeks
unspecified monetary damages and an injunction to end “Purdue’s lies and deception
about its opioids.”

“For decades, Purdue Pharma amassed a fortune and built an empire on suffering and lies,”
Herring (D) said at an afternoon news conference, flanked by a recovering addict and a
father who lost a grown son to prescription opioids.

[Archangel125]

Hey, if there's merits to this case, I hope criminal charges follow soon. This shit cannot go unpunished.

[ExplodingGuy]

Should go after insurance companies too for denying access to therapies and treatments that would treat the source of pain instead of forcing patients to go through rigamarole and ineffectual "pain therapy."

[Saxon]

Fuck big pharama