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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSackler Family Led Effort to Mislead Public About OxyContin, Opioids, Emails Show
Shameful.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sackler-family-led-effort-to-mislead-public-about-oxycontin-opioids-emails-show?ref=home
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Sackler Family Led Effort to Mislead Public About OxyContin, Opioids, Emails Show
Members of the Sackler familyowners of the OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharmadirected years of efforts to mislead the public about the opioid, according to previously undisclosed documents. An email from 2001 shows that, when evidence of growing abuse of the painkiller became clear, former company President Richard Sackler instructed executives to try to push blame onto people who had become addicted. We have to hammer on abusers in every way possible... They are the culprits and the problem. They are reckless criminals, he wrote. Another shows him responding to poor sales, saying: I had hoped for better results... What else more can we do to energize the sales and grow at a faster rate? Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has sued Purdue Pharma and eight Sackler family members for allegedly contributing to the states opioid epidemic through its marketing of OxyContin. The emails are the first evidence that appears to tie the Sacklersmajor donors to arts and education institutions on two continentsto decisions made by the company about marketing. Purdue Pharma has previously argued the Sackler family was removed from the day-to-day running of the company.
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Sackler Family Led Effort to Mislead Public About OxyContin, Opioids, Emails Show (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2019
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madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)1. There are now branches of the family estranged and not speaking.
There are members of the family who are split off from the those involved in the OxyCotin business. It is another example of how greed and money corrupts.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)2. It corrupts, and kills so many. I hope
someone from this family has to pay for their greed.
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)3. There are apparently some Sackler cousins who agree with you.
It seems from what has been written about this is that Richard Sackler is the biggest villain.
I just don't understand that level of sociopathy.