In new lawsuit, Morrisey alleges Purdue caused switch to heroin

[TexasTowelie]

Fifteen years after West Virginia reached a settlement with the manufacturer of the opioid OxyContin, the state is once again suing the manufacturer of the powerful prescription painkiller.

The 2004 settlement, for $10 million, was meant to protect Purdue Pharma from another lawsuit by West Virginia. But West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office is alleging in his lawsuit, filed Thursday in Boone County Circuit Court, that because Purdue reformulated OxyContin in 2010, the state can sue again.

Citing several studies, Morrisey's office is alleging that when Purdue re-formulated OxyContin to be less easily crushed, they spurred a switch to the street drug heroin in West Virginia.

"There were provisions in that settlement that we had to look at very closely and some may argue that we’re precluded from bringing a lawsuit," Morrisey said Thursday, during a news conference at Brian's Safehouse in Beckley.

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(Beckley Register-Herald)

[mr_lebowski]

1. That's pretty disingenuous ... I mean, F Purdue and everything, but they were trying to make the

drug less easily abused with the reformulation ... you can't turn around and blame them for THAT ... causing addicts to turn instead to heroin, because they then couldn't abuse Oxy as easily anymore.

So, what, they were supposed to leave Oxy easily crushable so that addicts wouldn't turn to heroin ... even though the whole world was blaming them for creating addicts ... by letting their drug be crushable in the first place?

That's bullshit, straight up.