Purdue Pharma has reportedly settled a consolidated federal lawsuit made up of more than 2,000 cities and counties accusing the OxyContin maker of being responsible for the country’s sweeping opioid crisis
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States across the country have launched legal action against opioid manufacturers. Nevada, Idaho, California, Hawaii, Maine and the District of Columbia all filed lawsuits against Purdue Pharma in June. In fact, every state except Nebraska has sued, filed administrative charges or promised to sue companies accused of being responsible for the opioid crisis, The Associated Press reported.
The CDC says that opioid overdoses killed more than 47,000 people in 2017, 35% of which involved prescription opioids such as OxyContin. That is six times higher than the opioid deaths in 1999, the same decade Purdue Pharma created OxyContin, an addictive painkiller.
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