Pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma LP secretly pursued a plan ... In one sales quarter in 2013, the complaint says, Purdue's 634 sales reps visited prescribers 177,773 times, with more than ...

Doctors were told by Purdue sales reps that they were not aggressive enough ... office took place less than two months before Purdue Pharma filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

What Happened: Purdue Pharma developed and aggressively marketed OxyContin starting in the 1990s via medical sales reps whose job was to convince doctors to prescribe more of their drug.

BOSTON (AP) — McKinsey & Company consulting firm has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal investigation into its work to help opioids manufacturer Purdue Pharma boost the sales of the ...

(AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File) BOSTON (AP) — McKinsey & Company consulting firm has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal investigation into its work to help opioids manufacturer Purdue Pharma ...