OxyContin, a painkiller, spurred an epidemic of opioid addiction. More than 100,000 Americans have been dying annually in recent years from drug overdoses, and 75% of those deaths involved opioids ...
The firm used to help Purdue Pharma increase the sales of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, which some advocates say sparked the current U.S. drug crisis in the 1990s. The company said in ...