(January 21, 2024 at 5:46 am)Belacqua Wrote:(January 21, 2024 at 4:27 am)Ahriman Wrote: I'm not familiar with that. What happened?
This is from Wikipedia:
Quote:The Sackler family is an American family who owned the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma and later founded Mundipharma.[1] Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin. Purdue Pharma has been criticized for its role in the opioid epidemic in the United States.[2][3][4] They have been described as the "most evil family in America",[5][6][7][8] and "the worst drug dealers in history".[9][10]
The Sackler family has been profiled in various media, including the documentary Crime of the Century on HBO, the book Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, the 2021 Hulu miniseries Dopesick, the 2022 Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and the 2023 Netflix mini-series Painkiller.
They knew their new painkiller was addictive, but claimed it wasn't. Then they advertised it hard, and gave doctors incentives to prescribe it. A huge number of people were told they couldn't get addicted, but then they did. Since it's an opioid, when addicts couldn't get prescriptions or black market Oxy any more they just turned to heroin, which is cheaper and more readily available.
In America rich people don't get punished, so the Sacklers have been fined, but their lawyers continue to fight everything in court.
It's the poster child for why medicine and the profit motive don't work together.
Okay, so obviously the family is being used as a scapegoat. It's extremely obvious.
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