Document: Facing blame for seeding the opioid crisis, Purdue explored its next profit opportunity — treating addiction

Document: Facing blame for seeding the opioid crisis, Purdue explored its next profit opportunity — treating addiction

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Not content with billions of dollars in profits from the potent painkiller OxyContin, its maker explored expanding into an “attractive market” fueled by the drug’s popularity — treatment of opioid addiction, according to previously secret passages in a court document filed by the state of Massachusetts.