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The Civil Medicaid Fraud Division at the office of Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton has sued Pfizer and its contractor Tris Pharma for providing adulterated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug, Quillivant XR, to children.

The AG alleges that these companies defrauded the Texas Medicaid programme by offering adulterated drugs to children in the US state of Texas.

This also violated the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act, now known as the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act (THFPA).

Drug manufacturer Tris was contracted by Pfizer to produce ADHD medicine for paediatric use to be supplied under Medicaid.

A press filing published on Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton’s website states: “Pfizer knowingly distributed Quillivant to children on Medicaid despite the drug’s pattern of failing quality control tests due to flawed manufacturing practices. (Η Πφαίζερ εν γνώσει της χορηγούσε το Quillivant στα παιδιά ενώ συνέχιζε για χρόνια να αποτυγχάνει ποιοτικά στα τεστ ελέγχου λόγω εσφαλμένων πρακτικών κατασκευής του).

“For years, Tris altered the drug’s testing method in violation of federal and state laws to ensure Quillivant passed regulatory hurdles and could continue to be sold. “

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