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Massachusetts Attorney General Targets Oxycontin Maker Purdue, Says They Engineered Opioid Crisis (Page 4)
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The Massachusetts attorney general is targeting Purdue Pharma and eight members of the Sackler family who own the company, alleging in a lawsuit they are "personally responsible" for deceptively selling OxyContin.
The attorney general, Maura Healey, sat down with CBS This Morning. She alleges the Sackler family hired "hundreds of workers to carry out their wishes" – pushing doctors to get "more patients on opioids, at higher doses, for longer, than ever before" all while paying "themselves billions of dollars."
In her lawsuit, Healey names eight members of the family that own Purdue Pharma, alleging they "micromanaged" a "deceptive sales campaign." In the conclusion to the complaint, Healey said the Sackler family used the power at their disposal to engineer an opioid crisis. Almost 400,000 people died from opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2017, according to the CDC.
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From the article linked to ... wow, what would they define as "abusers":
In one alleged instance, then-president Richard Sackler devised what Healey describes as Sackler's "solution to the overwhelming evidence of overdose and death," writing in a confidential email, "we have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible. They are the culprits and the problem."
I'd like to know if the CDC might consider any of these messages which have surfaced and update their "guidelines" to give patients a little more slack!
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nimshie29 Says:
He will have a hard time prosecuting his case. These companies have power and money to spare.
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Anon Says:
If you read the filings it’s pretty interesting. Especially because the pain clinic I go to still goes by some of the lies the sales folks used to tell. Like appropriate patients won’t get addicted. And the one about how people are less likely to get addicted to extended release meds because there isn’t an “up and down” when there is a constant supply in your system. That is not true & this is part of why they are in trouble for fraud. Yet long time pain clinics still use this. Last time I went in I had to circle things on a paper and add up the points to see how likely it is that I will abuse my meds. Some aren’t even about me-like do I have a family member who abuses drugs. Hell if I would even admit to that if I did, if it means I will be subjected to more scrutiny. Or if I was molested as a kid. 40 years ago doesn’t affect my choices today, so really? The worst part was that men get more points for each thing, just because they’re men.
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Bella Says:
Greed is the motive here. So awful when a drug company understands the consequences in prescribing this just for profit. I sometimes wonder the phrase “What profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?” This has happened to me, a certain pain clinic tried to put me on these I said no I did not want to be on them 24/7 I want to be able to control my pain something less powerful but as needed. They simply said “You do not tell us how to help you, we tell you.” And I live in Mass. I remain silent as not to ruin it for other patients who may need this more than me 24/7. But Perdue are nothing but money hungry profit above people makers. Bout time they be held accountable. None get away with things like this....
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Karol Says:
I think people that are on opiods are going through the worst of it, as it does help, but it gets taken away. And we as pain patients have to suffer the pain along with the severe withdraw symptoms. Doctors don't go through that, they made their money. So where is the justice?
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