 OxyContin drug maker mulls bankruptcy due to myriad lawsuits OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP explores filing for bankruptcy to address potentially significant liabilities from roughly 2,000 lawsuits alleging the drug manufacturer contributed to the deadly opioid crisis sweeping the United States, people familiar wCommentsview comments in forum Page 1 2 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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Of course, they are unlikely to do serious time behind bars, being seriously rich and all, unlike some of their former customers in the US who can be charged with manslaughter if they share drugs with somebody who dies.
Meanwhile all those museums, universities and other institutions who took money from the Sacklers are going to have to figure out what to do next.
https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol ... story.html
They were making a fortune from people selling their product on the black market and now that those people have switched suppliers it's obviously cutting into their bottom line. So it's time to cut their losses and take the money and run.
A good start but most of the Purdue family who runs that corporation need to go to jail for a long time for the suffering they inflicted on society in the name of greed.
You know what? I totally agree with you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/heal ... ontin.html
But a copy of a confidential Justice Department report shows that federal prosecutors investigating the company found that Purdue Pharma knew about “significant” abuse of OxyContin in the first years after the drug’s introduction in 1996 and concealed that information.
Company officials had received reports that the pills were being crushed and snorted; stolen from pharmacies; and that some doctors were being charged with selling prescriptions, according to dozens of previously undisclosed documents that offer a detailed look inside Purdue Pharma. But the drug maker continued “in the face of this knowledge” to market OxyContin as less prone to abuse and addiction than other prescription opioids, prosecutors wrote in 2006.
Doctors who knowingly over prescribed OxyContin should be held accountable too.
Good grief, whoda thunk it, we agree.
I doubt there are many of us who don't know someone personally that has been affected directly by this highly addictive, destructive drug.
Doctors who knowingly over prescribed OxyContin should be held accountable too.
Given the plethora of media and medical information that's come out in the past 10 years about the joys of oxy there's no more excuses about not knowing about the dangers of over prescribing this drug. And yet they're still doing it.
Doctors who knowingly over prescribed OxyContin should be held accountable too.
Don’t get me started. A tiny minority have been held to account so far. You have to do something truly outrageous to come to the attention of the police and even then it takes years:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfound ... e-1.949302
Here’s the lad who took over Buckingham’s practice. I wish I was making this up:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfound ... -1.3783772
And, dear reader, if your head hasn’t exploded yet, see what he is up to now:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfound ... -1.4425116
Doctors who knowingly over prescribed OxyContin should be held accountable too.
Don’t get me started. A tiny minority have been held to account so far. You have to do something truly outrageous to come to the attention of the police and even then it takes years:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfound ... e-1.949302
Here’s the lad who took over Buckingham’s practice. I wish I was making this up:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfound ... -1.3783772
And, dear reader, if your head hasn’t exploded yet, see what he is up to now:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfound ... -1.4425116
Because fuck the Hippocratic Oath.
Sackler-owned Purdue Pharma settles opioid lawsuit for $270m
As part of the deal, the US firm will fund a new centre to study addiction.
Purdue is one of several firms named in the claim which alleged they used deceptive practices to sell opioids.
The deal is the first Purdue has struck amid some 2,000 other lawsuits linked to its painkiller OxyContin.
The lawsuit filed by Oklahoma claimed that in order to persuade doctors to prescribe their painkillers, Purdue, and other companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceutical, allegedly decided to "falsely downplay the risk of opioid addiction" and "overstate" the benefits of their drugs to treat a wide range of conditions.
The companies deny the claims....
From what I understand, there are still some 1999 lawsuits to go.