Purdue Pharma launched the opioid painkiller OxyContin within the Nineteen Nineties and promoted it aggressively as non-addictive.
United States authorities legal professionals argued that the corporate’s homeowners, the Sacklers, knew how their medicine was being abused broadly, however doubled down on manufacturing – and income. Just lately a lawsuit was settled for $6bn.
Barry Meier, the creator of Ache Killer (quickly to be a Netflix collection), began writing concerning the opioid epidemic 20 years in the past when it was killing about 20,000 folks yearly. He tells host Steve Clemons how company greed and authorities dithering have led that quantity to exceed 100,000 deaths final yr alone.
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