The New York Times  reports, “Purdue Pharma’s sales force swept through New York State, visiting doctors and pharmacies nearly half a million times between 2006 and 2017 to promote OxyContin and other opioid painkillers.” That is “roughly 160 sales stops in the state each weekday during the height of the nation’s addiction crisis.” The company’s “flood-the-zone sales strategy was among the new disclosures contained in court papers filed on Thursday by Attorney General Letitia James of New York as part of the office’s lawsuit against opioid manufacturers, distributors and eight members of the Sackler family, who control Purdue.”

From the news release of the American Association for Justice.