Purdue Pharma, We Will See You In Hell!

[Celerity]

A company that proved that there’s no opiate for the masses like … opioids!

https://www.wonkette.com/p/purdue-pharma-we-will-see-you-in



A bankruptcy judge says he will make it official: Purdue Pharma — in business in some form since 1892 and wholly owned by members of the Sackler family since 1952 — shall soon be no more, dissolved, and it and its soon-to-be-former owners the family shall pay some $7 billion over 15 years for their aggressive role in getting America dopesick pushing OxyContin with lies.

Your reminder, the evil narco-cartel getting Americans like JD Vance’s momma addicted to pain pills are not Venezuelans bringing over fentanyl in drug boats! Your pushermen, pusherwomen, and pusherpeople are right here in the US of A, in white coats, suits and ties. An estimated 13.8 million Americans abuse prescription drugs every year, and fill 125 million opioid prescriptions, versus about 660,000 people a year estimated to use heroin. And one often leads to the other, especially where people lack access to medical and mental health care, and heroin is cheaper and easier to get. And about 80 percent of the drugs intercepted at the border are being smuggled by Americans.

Remember how when Vance was a boy, his momma got addicted to prescription drugs from the ones she stole from her job as a nurse? From a New York Times profile of her (gift link):



And then, in 1996, Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin came on the scene, billing itself as a safer, less addictive alternative, even though no long-term studies and no assessment of its addictive capabilities had been conducted. Nevertheless, the company touted lied that OxyContin “might be less likely to cause abuse and addiction than shorter-acting painkillers like Percocet and Vicodin” and claimed that the risk of addiction to the painkiller was less than 1 percent, and took Percocet and Vicodin’s whole market of hurters. It was a blockbuster, making $2.8 billion in 2001, and by 2017 it had made the company $35 billion and the Sacklers among the 20 richest families in the world. But then came the deaths. Between 1999 and 2017, 200,000 deaths had occurred from overdoses of OxyContin and other prescription opioids, and by 2022, 145 people a day in the US were dying of overdoses.

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[Dave Bowman]

1. Wouldn't it be nice if these greedy sociopaths ended up homeless?

I won't hold my breath, though. What a bunch of scumbags.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. The payment plan deal allows the family to stay VERY wealthy.

John Oliver did a piece on what a fuck job this payment plan is.

[leftieNanner]

2. Please read Empire of Pain

It tells the whole disgusting story of the Sacklers.

[BOSSHOG]

3. How many Sacklers have ended up in jail?

I believe the number is zero.