Illinois Attorney General Sues Purdue Pharma
Illinois becomes the most recent state to sue Purdue Pharma L.P. and Purdue Pharma, Inc. (Purdue), the company who produces the opioid prescription drug Oxycontin. Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a lawsuit that blames Purdue for following deceptive marketing techniques to explode the rate of prescriptions for opioids. The lawsuit claims that “Purdue carried out