Oxycontin Maker To Plead Guilty To Federal Criminal Charges, Pay $8 Billion, And Will Close The Company
The opioid epidemic that has categorized years of the North American conversation surrounding addiction took a new turn on Wednesday, October 21st, 2020. Purdue Pharma, the company responsible for creating the wildly addictive–and initially overprescribed–opioid OxyContin pled guilty to a series of felonies. However, some still feel it isn’t enough. (1) The Charges Around OxyContin
