There is very little reference to the US Food & Drug Administration in the settlement documents released by the Department of Justice in its resolution of opioid litigation with Purdue Pharma L.P.
There is just one reference in the context of one of the criminal counts against Purdue: “Purdue knowingly and intentionally conspired and agreed with others to aid and abet [Health Care Providers’] dispensing, without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the usual course of professional practice (and thus without a valid prescription), prescription drugs held for sale after shipment in interstate commerce, thereby rendering the dispensed drugs misbranded in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act,” the
