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May 17, 2019

5 states announce new suits over prescription opioids

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and GEOFF MULVIHILL
Associated Press

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Five more state attorneys general announced legal filings Thursday seeking to hold the company that makes OxyContin responsible for an opioid addiction crisis that's now the leading cause of accidental deaths across the country and in many states.

The company, Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma, blasted the claims, saying they're based on “stunningly overbroad legal theories, which if adopted by courts, will undermine the bedrock legal principle of causation.”


 
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