Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson released new details in a lawsuit against the manufacturers of opioids alleging that sales staff at a Washington-state drug company collected data to push drugs to high-prescribers and did not report them as required under law.
The information is part of a newly unredacted complaint that had been filed against Purdue Pharma in September 2017. It had been sealed at the request of Purdue, which argued that some information in the complaint was a trade secret.
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