Purdue to settle over OxyContin
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Drug maker Purdue Pharma has agreed to pay $19.5 million to 26 states, including California, and the District of Columbia to settle complaints that it encouraged physicians to overprescribe its painkiller OxyContin.
State attorneys general complained that the Stamford, Conn.-based company urged doctors to prescribe OxyContin every eight hours instead of the 12-hour dose approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
