Purdue Pharma

At Wednesday’s Committee of the Whole meeting, eight members of the Missoula City Council heard Mayor John Engen propose joining a lawsuit against major drug makers such as Purdue Pharma to collect damages done to Missoula residents damaged by opiods.

Missoula woman arrested at a local bar after producing a handgun from an unusual holster, her bra.

Last week, Montana achieved an important victory when a federal judge in Ohio remanded the lawsuit against Purdue Pharma from federal court and returned it to courts in Montana.

KGVO News reached out to Purdue Pharma following the announcement of a federal lawsuit by the State of Montana charging Purdue with deliberately promoting its opiod drug OxyContin despite knowing the addictive nature of the medication

On Monday, Montana Attorney General Tim Fox announced his office has filed a lawsuit in Helena against Purdue Pharma, maker of the opiod painkiller OxyContin.