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Wednesday, February 6th, 2019

OxyContin Maker Explored Expansion Into “Attractive” Anti-Addiction Market

Author:     David Armstrong
Source:     ProPublica/STAT
Publication Date:     Jan. 30, 3 p.m. EST
 Link: OxyContin Maker Explored Expansion Into “Attractive” Anti-Addiction Market
Stephan:   This story is one of the most amazing examples of despicable greed and a lack of ethics I have read in some time, and that's saying a lot given what is going on in the United States. More than 200,000 people in the U.S. alone have died from the drugs this evil family markets. And then, having created hundreds of thousands of addicts they tried to sell the cure for the problem they created, as this fact-based article describes It is my personal view that every adult member of the Sackler family who in any way benefits from Pardue Pharma should be arrested and tried in the World Court for crimes against humanity and imprisoned for life. All the assets of the Pardue Pharma should be confiscated and used to help those whose lives were destroyed by the Sacklers, and committed to research on how to treat pain without creating addiction.

Families and friends who have lost loved ones to opioid overdoses leave pill bottles outside the Purdue Pharma headquarters in protest on 17 August 2018. Credit: Jessica Hill/AP

Not content with billions of dollars in profits from the potent painkiller OxyContin, its maker explored expanding into an “attractive market” fueled by the drug’s popularity — treatment of opioid addiction, according to previously secret passages in a court document filed by the state of Massachusetts.

In internal correspondence beginning in 2014, Purdue Pharma executives discussed how the sale of opioids and the treatment of opioid addiction are “naturally linked” and that the company should expand across “the pain and addiction spectrum,” according to redacted sections of the lawsuit by the Massachusetts attorney general. A member of the billionaire Sackler family, which founded and controls the privately held company, joined in those discussions and urged staff in an email to give “immediate attention” to this business opportunity, the complaint alleges.

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1 Comment

  1. Pamela PIetri, L. on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 12:28 pm

    Seems to me there needs to be a massive class action lawsuit launched by the myriad victims of opioid addiction and it’s destruction of human life! Any attorneys out there willing to take this on?