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Purdue appeals order to unseal OxyContin records to Kentucky Supreme Court

The legal fight stems from a motion filed by STAT to make public secret records believed to show how Purdue promoted OxyContin and what executives knew about the drug's addictive…
Source: Douglas Healey/AP

Purdue Pharma on Monday asked the Kentucky Supreme Court to review a lower court decision that would unseal secret records about the company’s marketing of its opioid painkiller OxyContin.

The legal fight stems from to make public sealed records believed to show how Purdue promoted OxyContin and what company executives knew about the addictive properties of the drug, which has

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