Big Pharma in the courts

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 [alleging] 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."

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In one alleged instance, then-president Richard Sackler devised what [Mass. AG Maura] 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."

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Almost 400,000 people died from opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2017, according to the CDC.

  CBS

And counting. Purdue Pharma's written response to CBS is contained in the article if you'd like to read it.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.