OxyContin’s manufacturer and its billionaire owners gave millions of dollars to political candidates — who often held powerful positions — and organizations, but the opioid profiteers’ tentacles of influence reach much farther, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found. The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, which is widely blamed for playing an essential role […]
Trump Opioid Plan Will Include Death Penalty for Some Drug Dealers…
American Cartel: Billionaire Family Behind OxyContin Apparently Spends ZILCH Rehabbing Addicts by Ethan Barton…
The Sackler family has amassed a multi-billion dollar fortune through Purdue Pharma – the drug manufacturer widely accused of helping launch the opioid epidemic – but a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found no evidence the family is using their vast personal wealth to help victims fight their addiction. Generous donations have allowed the family […]
Small-Town American Budgets Devastated by Opioid Crisis as 41 States Subpoena Big Pharma…
A surge in Opioid consumption, primarily prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl – a drug 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine – and the resulting spike in overdose related deaths is devastating families in rural America. But the opioid epidemic is laying waste to more than just the broken families…
City Devastated by OxyContin Use Sues Purdue Pharma, Claims Drugmaker Put Profits over Citizens’ Welfare…
A Washington city devastated by black-market OxyContin filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the painkillers’ manufacturer Thursday, alleging the company turned a blind eye to criminal trafficking of its pills to “reap large and obscene profits” and demanding it foot the bill for widespread opioid addiction in the community…
REPORT: Big Pharma Spent $880M to Keep Opiods Available…
The opioid crisis has reached a point where police officers carry Narcan when responding to calls due to the risk of accidental fentanyl exposure. But it may not have had to be like this…