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Oxycontin
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to plead to 3 criminal charges
Oct 21, 2020
The drugmaker will also pay a settlement of more than $8 billion, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Would a $10 billion Purdue settlement reach towns affected by the opioid crisis?
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Caitlin Esch
Aug 28, 2019
A proposed settlement would reportedly see the OxyContin maker declaring bankruptcy and paying big. Is that enough for people on the ground?
How one sentence helped set off the opioid crisis
by
Caitlin Esch
Dec 13, 2017
Recently unsealed documents shed light on how the maker of OxyContin seems to have relied more on focus groups than on scientific studies to create an aggressive and misleading marketing campaign that helped fuel the national opioid epidemic.
OxyContin's waiting game: Generic drug makers salivate while the FDA wants safer pills
Apr 16, 2013
OxyContin is supposed to come off patent and generic drug makers are excited. But, the FDA may put a stop to it all to wait for safer pills.