Massachusetts Attorney General Targets Oxycontin Maker Purdue, Says They Engineered Opioid Crisis (Page 4) (Top voted first)

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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Re: Bella (# 31)

Perhaps I just chimed in but what I read, as a catholic, and you admitting that you’re a catholic and you just said in writing that another human being‘s birth was accidental!! For a catholic those words are abominations and should never be spoken regarding the gift of life that your god has given, because you’re in a little a twist that is purely a self-centered one and you say something like that I am ashamed that you put it in this category of suffering as humans, and utilize the words of the young and the experimental thing that they(and we were once them) and if I’m not mistaken you’ve lost a nephew and I am very very saddened by that loss for you, but also remember that in the 40s 30s 50s the whole music or entertainment industry, as the public form viewed it they the press and made note of what was clearly noticeable because it was obvious as the public viewed it, which came from somewhere call the whole private world of drug abuse that had nothing to do with perdue and oxycontin or oxycodone or all the theories in the world about how these hop heads came to be, and the vets returning from war who were so unfortunate at the time, and the creator of methadone who actually cried because he knew what a nightmare he had created in that drug which ‘helped’ so many become rich today as they became the control form of delivery options so there would be no abuse of that at incredible numbers per dose! Who worried about our young killing the most incredible thing, fighting for our freedom and that I don’t want to get near, who had no choice in their treatment if they were lucky enough to come home at all or hadn’t been shot or blown up, in pieces is how they came back... If they were lucky the pain was not physical but in their minds, and there was no treatment for that but experiments, those in physical pain were given lots of drugs, or were in places where they didn’t want to think about what they were there for and what they were doing and who gave a damn and did wind up in an opium den, who do we blame for all of it, if they attempted to get off it, call when what was there to help, and what were the alternatives? Who worried about our boys, so young.... The morphine that they were living on and what it created in terms of the need for alternatives? I remember and I am a true senior, the words that my mother was raised on, like if you ever tried smoking cannabis and then become what was visible only clearly in the entertainment industry which assured you of becoming heroin addict!

People aren’t comfortable with themselves, that’s simply a part of growing up from that adolescent stage of uncomfortability and uncertainty, the changes whether bodily, emotionally, mentally and what you’re going to do for the rest of your life and where you’re going and how you’re changing and something just might change just enough for you to try something so you‘d feel better and it might even come from your doctor, and if not what if your good and decent friend gave you something to concentrate more in school or to relax a little more and these are all good little students in that uncomfortable adolescent state what begins to happen there as they find and want something to feel a little better. Perhaps new and different and they try it and it doesn’t mean that it was prescribed to try it, for pain issues and if you’re lucky enough to be someone who lives long enough, example being in the hospital having surgery anything of that nature and let’s not forget that if you’re lucky enough to get to a certain age it would be really one of the unusual statistics if you didn’t have something that left you in pain, and half the time the surgery to repair or fix a problem has created horrors in the lives of people in the hopes of relieving pain only creating it tenfold and what of those people, what of the lack of thought that people who are now our young people will become one day and what happens now will effect them forever in the future?! But I really want to say as a catholic I have never heard anyone say that horrible things you said regarding this great gift of life things like pain can make you forget, but to hear you say to someone that ‘their birth was a mistake’....!!! Holy macarel that is one thing I wouldn’t believe a catholic would even conceive of much less say to another human being. I will pray for you, as I know how much it hurts and what you feel like saying or thinking, but not against the beautiful gift of life no matter how many screw ups fit the bill or criteria as a human being. For me you don’t think there are moments when I feel that no good deed goes on punished as I am disappearing all my muscle tissue is just gone as a bodybuilder I lost 46 pounds in a month more than 1/3 my body weight and I’m here for years later wondering what god wants for me as it’s terrifying, but what I did on 9/11 wasn’t for me so what do I feel? It’s not what I feel it’s what I do to correct what I feel feel as it can be pretty bad since people do very selfish in horrible things to someone who is disabled, since greed is an evil foe and the trail is all I know for these past four years and feeling like a throwaway by the medical community doesn’t help at all, and asking for help to find out why this is happening goes unheard, tell me what I should feel?

Not very easy to live with feelings most of the time as well as pain most of the time and isolation is the worst all of the time, the easiest and the only thing that makes sense is that something must be wrong with me if nobody cares about me now. And for me, I went to detox right after seven surgeries not to ever be a part of that world, prescription drugs for pain,only to lose after dying and a heart attack and my lungs are filled with nodules chillers tumors, bronchiectasis, copd and asthma which prevented me from working out and keeping a strong body to support the things that were in pain helping not to have it overcome me and that’s all before my neck and back issues, so, am I a throwaway? Is my birth a mistake too? I can feel things like that but no one else has the right, and not even me with the gift of life I’ve been given and it doesn’t feel like it most of the time but it is a gift and what I do with it is what truly matters and determines the character I’ve developed over all this time, but watching deterioration, even may lose my home as no one is there to help and then my property taxes went up over $1000 a month with no help and my income does not meet my mortgage plus and one of the utilities that has threatened to close and they did close my gas is soon as I came back since my house did not sell and I am trying to get the help I need with an issue that new york city has that may put me in the street with the one 875 credit rating that’s in the crapper now in one year, and people stolen every penny I’ve had having to borrow from humans for the first time in my life at this the worst time of my life but I cannot do much is really a travesty and sometimes I feel fully ashamed of my fellow man who really does not care and somehow that does not seem to be getting better here in this world around us and I grew up here, so I do know the difference the computer and social media age has made and how sad these millenials seem to be and what they have to look forward to....But for the seniors of the world, and blaming perdue for everything that had started so many years ago that it’s an absolute impossibility! Let us have our integrity for a last moments, and some quality of life so we are being punished for everyone else’s decisions as pain is debilitating and restrictive of mind and body, leaving us to be nothing, leaving us to wait for nothing and have no value in this life where the experiences of the elderly are the ones that really provide the wisdom and the knowledge of history and a true experience of history, and perhaps a vision of a tomorrow!

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Sorry not and never would be an addict, I’m too smart for that otherwise I’d be writing posts such as yourself. Have a Blessed day.

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Re: Bella (# 58)

Your sorry ass nephew taking drugs unknown to him is what has got the chronic pain patient in so much crap. He od’s and every legal pain patient pays the price. The authorities cannot get him for his illicit drug use so they attack innocent people. Go Away!!! You are a pariah and a complete jerk. You want to be codependent with a sorry lowlife illicit drug addict. He is dead because he ingested an unknown substance. Case closed. You make excuses for him. I am alive and he is dead. Seems like justice to me. I am sick of reading your ascerbic posts. You are a satan worshipper and NOT any decent person or Catholic. Find someone else to be codependent with. Your sorry lowlife nephew is dead and real chronic pain patients have had to pay the price of his sorry legacy. I have ignored your insanity for long enough. I have avoided you because you are an ascerbic person now go away and stay away.

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Re: ThunderHeart (# 42)

Sounds to me like your withdrawing.

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Re: RosalieMBo (# 49)

I think you need a Xanax. Not interested in this unhinged rant.

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