DID the manufacturer of OxyContin, a controversial painkiller to which many have become addicted, withhold crucial information from regulators? That’s what a former employee of Purdue Pharma of Connecticut claims in new details added to a lawsuit filed earlier this year. The company denies the allegations.
The drug’s active ingredient is oxycodone, an opiate found in more than 50 painkillers whose effects are similar to morphine. A patented mechanism is supposed to release the drug slowly over a 12-hour period. But since the drug went on sale in the US in 1996, numerous people claim to have become addicted after using it as prescribed by their…
