“Purdue is (and at all relevant times was) simply an opioid manufacturing company. Only a tiny percentage of its revenue are non-opioid related,” according to the Attorney General.
Since 1996, the pharmaceutical company made over $35 billion in revenue from selling OxyContin while Pennsylvania paid the price, according to AG Shapiro in a statement.
He also stressed that Purdue Pharma partly manufactured the opioid epidemic by deceptively marketing OxyContin. “We’re taking action to hold them accountable for their greed and the devastation they pushed for profit,” said AG Shapiro.
