Article archive / December 2020
Originally published: . Volume 11, No. 12. Source pages: 6.
In October, a key contributor to the opioid addiction crisis, Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, agreed to plead guilty to three federal criminal charges relating to its role in the opioid crisis. Charges included violating the federal anti- kickback law, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and violating the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, according to several reports on the web. Purdue is supposed to pay $8.3 billion in fines, forfeiture of past profits and also included are civil liability payments. According to reports the company does not have the liquid assets to pay the fine and so will be dissolved. has been reported that the assets will be used to create a public benefit company that pays for addiction treatment.
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