New York, which averages nine opioid-related deaths per day, says it's leaving 'no stone unturned.'
New York is suing the billionaire family behind the company that created OxyContin.
While other states and localities have filed similar suits, New York is taking some novel approaches, such as seeking to bar the companies from marketing and distributing painkillers in New York unless they abide by strict safeguards. "This is an extensive lawsuit that leaves no stone unturned," New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, said at a news conference.
But at the heart of the case are Purdue and the Sacklers, whom James called"the masterminds behind this crisis."Meet the Sacklers, one of the richest families in America, who built their $14 billion fortune off of controversial prescription drug OxyContinThe suit, like others filed elsewhere, alleges aggressive marketing of OxyContin beginning in the mid-1990s led to massive overprescribing and a scourge of dependency, addiction and death.
The Sackler relatives named in the suit — all former Purdue board members who remain shareholders — said in a statement issued through a spokeswoman that they"have always acted properly."
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