In one of his last actions as Connecticut attorney general, George Jepsen announced Thursday afternoon that his office would be filing another lawsuit against Big Pharma. This one, though, targets only Stamford-based Purdue Pharma and names 16 current and past top officials, including board members and former CEOs, as defendants.

The lawsuit, to be filed in Hartford Superior Court, claims the company designed, financed and wages an aggressive campaign to mislead doctors and patients of the addictions associated with opioids. The 30-page lawsuit says Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, “misinformed patients and doctors into prescribing, and patients into taking, higher and more dangerous doses” and that the company “convinced doctors to prescribe longer-duration opioid prescriptions and [for] patients to stay on Purdue’s drugs for longer and more harmful periods of time.”

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