Purdue Pharma to pay $8.3bn, plead guilty to settle opioid probes

Al Jazeera English 2020-10-22

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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty to three felony charges and agrees to pay $8.3bn to settle federal probes into its role in fuelling the US opioid crisis.
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