City Sues Pharma Company Over Oxycontin Black Market

In the first-ever lawsuit of its kind, a city in Washington has sued a pharmaceutical company for “enabling” the devastating OxyContin black market. The lawsuit by Everett, a city of 100,000 north of Seattle, is claiming that Purdue Pharmaceuticals had evidence that its pills were going to drug traffickers but chose to ignore the situation and failed to inform law enforcement in order to maximize profits, reports the Everett Daily Herald. Everett “seeks to hold Purdue Pharma — the manufacturer, seller and promoter of OxyContin — accountable for knowingly, recklessly, and/or negligently supplying OxyContin to obviously suspicious physicians and pharmacies and enabling the diversion of OxyContin into the black market, including to drug rings, pill mills and other dealers for dispersal of the highly addictive pills,” the city said in its lawsuit. The suit, filed Thursday in Washington state Superior Court, accuses Purdue of gross negligence, and demands the company pay for the consequences of the opioid crisis as well as punitive damages.

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