Purdue Pharma

Law schools should have courses on the expanding immunities of government and corporate officials from criminal prosecution and punishment. Guest lecturers, speaking from their experience, could be Donald J. Trump, George W. Bush (criminal destruction of Iraq), Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the Sackler Family of opioid infamy, and the top officials […]

by NoahGee, look at this pair of drug-pushing assclowns. Someone even gave the daddy a medal. You almost have to give the Sackler Cartel some kind of credit. After all, they wanted to be honest upstanding citizens of the world and didn't want to do anything illegal like selling heroin or crack. No, they used some of that good old American capitalist ingenuity and invested their money in something worse but legal! Yay, Purdue Pharma!

The NY attorney general's office said: "The Sacklers continue to low ball victims and skirt a responsible settlement. We refuse to allow the family to misuse the courts in an effort to shield their financial misconduct."

Amazing! The lawyers figured out a way to make plaintiffs need the company to continue selling the killer drugs for them to get paid. Turn your opponents into partners. Brilliant!

Drug manufacturers and pharmacies fueled America's opioid drug addiction problem by convincing doctors to prescribe 76-billion pain pills over the last eight years.

When deaths from overdosing on OxyContin could no longer to be ignored, Sackler devised a corporate strategy to blame the victims for misusing their unethical products. Doctors were told that signs of addiction were 'pseudoaddiction' and should be treated by prescribing more of the drug.

President Trump declared that the opioid epidemic was a nationwide public-health emergency inasmuch as 300,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses since 2000.

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As lawsuits mount against the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma over its knowledge that one of its best-selling drugs was addictive and dangerous, a newly- uncovered Justice Department report shows that the multi-billion dollar corporation also knew that patients were abusing OxyContin shortly after the drug’s release.