Salesforce also being halved as Purdue Pharma faces lawsuits amid US opioid crisisThe maker of the painkiller OxyContin is to stop promoting the drug to doctors and halve its salesforce, as it faces a growing number of lawsuits over its role in the US opioid crisis. Purdue Pharma said its remaining 200 sales representatives would no longer visit doctors’ offices to promote its opioid drugs. OxyContin is Purdue’s biggest-selling drug and is estimated to have generated $1.8bn of sales last year, down from $2.8bn five years earlier. The Connecticut-based company is owned by the Sackler family, whose wealth exceeds $13bn. Continue reading…

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/feb/12/oxycontin-maker-to-stop-promoting-opioid-to-doctors-purdue-lawsuits-us-opioid-crisis