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    STAT wins long legal fight as Kentucky Supreme Court clears way for release of Purdue OxyContin files

    After STAT's yearslong legal fight, secret records about Purdue Pharma’s marketing of OxyContin will finally be made public.
    by Andrew Joseph and Casey Ross Aug 26, 2019 4 minutes

    FRANKFORT, Ky. — After a 3 1/2 year legal battle, secret records about Purdue Pharma’s marketing of its potent opioid painkiller OxyContin will finally be made public. The Kentucky Supreme Court denied a request from Purdue to review lower courts’ decisions to release the documents, according to a one-page order received Monday by the lawyers in the case.

    The decision is a major victory for STAT, which first filed a motion to unseal the records in March 2016. Purdue has fought to keep the documents out of view, but the Supreme Court’s refusal is final and can’t be appealed.

    Now, the public stands to get a glimpse of new information about how in the U.S., many from heroin and the synthetic opioid fentanyl.

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