In a Massachusetts civil suit against Purdue Pharma, alleging that they knowingly helped to create the current American opioid addiction epidemic, it was discovered that executives were seriously considering getting into the fast growing anti-addiction market so that they could cash in on the problem they were apparently creating in the sale of OxyContin.
From ProPublica:
Not content with billions of dollars in profits from the potent painkiller OxyContin, its maker explored expanding into an “attractive market” fueled by the drug’s popularity — treatment of opioid addiction, according to previously secret passages in a court document filed by the state of Massachusetts.
In internal correspondence beginning in 2014, Purdue Pharma executives discussed how the sale of opioids and the treatment of opioid addiction are “naturally linked” and that the company should expand across “the pain and addiction spectrum,” according to redacted sections of the lawsuit by the Massachusetts attorney general. A member of the billionaire Sackler family, which founded and controls the privately held company, joined in those discussions and urged staff in an email to give “immediate attention” to this business opportunity, the complaint alleges.
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anytime
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