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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to plead to 3 criminal charges

by Michael BalsamoGeoff Mulvihill
| October 21, 2020 8:27 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Purdue Pharma, the company behind the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

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