| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Legal
USA. This complaint shows Purdue Pharma’s secret plan to perversely profit by both creating and treating addiction
USA. This complaint shows Purdue Pharma’s secret plan to perversely profit by both creating and treating addiction
Making billions off a pain pill whose promotion helped spawn the prescription opioid epidemic that grew into today’s overdose fatality crisis wasn’t enough for the Sackler family, the owners of Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Seeing their profits starting to fall off in the face of growing resistance to their hyper-aggressive marketing of the drug, the Sacklers plotted to turn the misery of addiction they helped create into a cash cow for the company by acquiring and selling drugs aimed at treating that addiction. (AlterNet, USA, 11.02.2019)