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Article: West Virginia Attorney General Calls Painkiller Maker's Marketing `Coercive'.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- June 12, 2001
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By Charles Shumaker, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 12--West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw Jr. wants the company that makes the powerful painkiller OxyContin to stop pushing it on doctors who prescribe the drug to undeserving patients, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
In a case filed Monday in McDowell Circuit Court, McGraw alleges that the defendants have been "coercive and deceptive" in marketing OxyContin to doctors in order to make more money and form an illegal monopoly on the pain medication market. The suit names Purdue Pharma Inc., Purdue Pharma LP, the Purdue Frederick Company, Abbott ...