OxyContin creator sued for ‘significant role in causing opioid epidemic’

Following hundreds of lawsuits over the years against Purdue Pharma, Colorado attorney general Cynthia Coffman is suing the OxyContin creator for its “significant role in causing the opioid epidemic”. “Purdue’s habit-forming medications coupled with their reckless marketing have robbed children of their parents, families of their sons and daughters, and destroyed the lives of our friends, neighbours, and co-workers,” she explained.