On Tuesday State Attorney General Christopher Porrino filed a lawsuit in Essex County Superior Court against Purdue Pharma. Purdue is the manufacturer of the opioid OxyContin. The suit seeks to connect the marketing aimed at those with chronic pain to the ongoing national opioid addiction crisis which has hit New Jersey incredibly hard. A National Survey on Drug Use and Health states that 75 percent of all opioid misuse begins with people using medication that wasn’t prescribed for them. They receive it often from family and friends who had at some point a need for it.
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