NJ sues Sackler family, makers of OxyContin, for alleged role in opioid crisis
Attorney General Gurbir Grewal filed a lawsuit Thursday against members of the Sackler family, alleging that the founders of the company that makes OxyContin engaged in a widespread misinformation campaign driven by greed to capitalize on the opioid crisis.
New Jersey joins several other states that have recently targeted the Sacklers, whose company, Purdue Pharma, has been named alongside other opioid manufacturers in many lawsuits nationwide in recent years, including here.
But the Sacklers have recently become a focus of prosecutors for what they claim was their direct role in flooding the market with prescriptions drugs, particularly OxyContin, which generated sales of more than $35 billion since 1996………….
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