This addictive quality had resulted in over 1,000 OxyContin lawsuits, but winning the cases against Purdue Pharma has been difficult. At least 9 attempts to have an OxyContin class action lawsuits certified have been denied in both state and federal courts. By August 2005 Purdue Pharma had litigated 365 OxyContin lawsuits with more than 1,000 plaintiffs and had been successful in all of them. Purdue Pharma vowed to fight all lawsuits against it.
The only case Purdue has settled is a 2001 lawsuit by the attorney general’s office in West Virginia. That lawsuit claimed that Purdue Pharma had violated the West Virginia Consumer Protection Act and Antitrust Act and created a public nuisance by marketing OxyContin for off-label use, or use not approved by the FDA (Federal Food and Drug Administration). The Attorney General argued that these marketing practices resulted in addiction in many who did not need the medication.
Other lawsuits have agreed with this allegation and have attempted to prove that people suffered from the effects of narcotics addiction because Purdue Pharma promoted OxyContin for the treatment of mild pain.
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