McKinsey & Company agrees to pay $650M for helping boost opioid sales

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McKinsey & Company agrees to pay $650M for helping boost opioid sales. The company said in a statement on Friday that it's “deeply sorry” for its work for Purdue Pharma.

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 highly addictive drug OxyContin, according to court papers filed in Virginia on Friday.As part of the deal with the U.S.

One of the jobs for McKinsey, the papers said, was to identify which prescribers would generate the most additional prescriptions if Purdue salespeople focused on that. That resulted in prescriptions that “were not for a medically accepted indication, were unsafe, ineffective, and medically unnecessary, and that were often diverted for uses that lacked a legitimate medical purpose,” the filing said.“This was not hypothetical,' Christopher Kavanaugh, U.S.

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