Sackler

Eric Zuesse “Mobsters” are whatever the law says they are, but in some countries they are, in fact, simply the nation’s wealthiest people, who can and do pay whomever they have to pay (“consigliere”) in order to get the law to mean what they want it to mean. In other words: sometimes a mobster is […]

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!

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.

The state of Massachusetts sued the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, which has been blamed for spawning America’s opioid crisis, naming leading executives and members of the multibillionaire Sackler family that owns the Purdue pharmaceutical company. Purdue and some other painkiller makers are currently facing more than 300 lawsuits from city and county authorities across the country. [...]

Rock stars Tom Petty and Prince both died after overdosing on opioid drugs. The Sackler family reaped $14 billion in ill-gotten gains after manipulating the medical industry into prescribing their dangerous drugs. The Sacklers are now selling their fatal drugs on the international market after facing lawsuits, bad press and new regulations in America. [...]

Purdue Pharma reportedly collaborated with the national hospital accreditation agency to change its pain management plan, which drives doctors to prescribe opioids. [...]