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OXYCONTIN LAWYERS
If you or your family has suffered because of OxyContin, the
manufacturer may have been negligent and failed in its duty to design, make,
inspect and label the product appropriately. Please
contact the oxycontin lawyers of Brown & Crouppen today for your free
initial consultation. Our experienced team of lawyers, medical professionals and
investigators would like to represent you and help equal the odds of your
winning a fair settlement or award from the companies who have put dangerous
drugs into the hands of consumers.
FREE CASE EVALUATION >
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The Brown & Crouppen
law firm is one of mid-America’s largest personal
injury law firms with a 25 year history of success. A
large area of our concentration is dangerous drug
litigation involving manufacturers and suppliers of
unsafe drugs.
We believe that the makers of
dangerous products
who place profit above the lives
of innocent victims
should be held accountable for
their actions.
OxyContin™ is a powerful, addictive
drug that the National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA)
has identified as one of their greatest concerns and
a growing problem.
Each day our nation becomes more aware of the
dangers of this drug as lives are lost, families are
torn apart and communities are devastated by the
criminal activity associated with pursuit and use of
the drug. We recognize that OxyContin has helped
relieve the pain of many. However, we also believe
that Purdue Pharma, L.P. and Abbot Labs were
negligent in promoting Oxycontin while minimizing
the risk of abuse and addiction.
We believe that manufacturers have a duty to
anticipate, and when feasible, design against misuse
of their product. Rather than aggressively marketing
to physicians, Purdue should have stressed “limited
use” and made healthcare providers aware of the
addictive tendencies of OxyContin. Instead, the
makers of OxyContin reaped enormous benefits from
the sale of the drug. In August of 2001, the
Connecticut Attorney General Purdue ruled
that…”Purdue Pharma, has ethical responsibility to
help treat and rehabilitate those addicted to the
powerful painkiller”. We are committed to ensuring
that some of the drug maker’s profits are put to
good use as compensation to those whose lives have
been unalterably changed.
ABOUT OXYCONTIN:
A synthetic opiate twice as potent as morphine,
Oxycodone works by attaching itself to specific
proteins called opioid receptors located in the
brain, spinal cord and gastrointestinal tract.
Oxycontin is both physically and mentally addictive
with short and long term health consequences.
Chronic use of OxyContin ® can result in increased
tolerance and the need for higher doses of the
medication to receive the initial effect.
Learn more about
Oxycontin & Addiction >
OXYCONTIN QUESTIONS
& ANSWERS
What is OxyContin?
What type of pain would
require me to use OxyContin?
Are there activities
that I am limited to performing while
taking
OxyContin?
What should I do if I
still have pain while taking OxyContin?
Can
I take other medications?
Can I drink alcohol
while taking OxyContin?
Is OxyContin
addictive?
How do I determine if my
pain is severe enough to
require
OxyContin?
What are the side effects of
OxyContin?
What are the symptoms
of an OxyContin overdose?
Should I contact Oxycontin Lawyers if I
have been harmed by, or become addicted to, OxyContin?
What should I do if I want to sue the manufacturer of OxyContin?
Has there been any class action lawsuits
against the makers of OxyContin?
More Oxycontin FAQs >
OXYCONTIN LEGAL
CONCERNS
Our
Oxycontin Lawyers believe that Purdue Pharma and Abbott Laboratories should be held
liable for:
- providing inadequate warnings to
healthcare providers regarding the potential for abuse
- over promoting the drug and
questionable marketing techniques
- defective design associated with the
easily removed “time-release” coating that allowed dangerously high
dosages
Brown & Crouppen’s oxycontin
lawyers,
credentials and resources have helped thousands of clients win
millions of dollars from the manufacturers and suppliers of unsafe
drugs and products, including oxycontin.
Learn more about our
Oxycontin Lawyers >
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