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OxyContin’s Sackler Family: What Do You Think The Penalty Should Be for Selling Drugs That Have Killed 200,000 People?
The Sackler family have a net worth of 13 billion. Their wealth derives from deceptive, aggressive sales tactics pushing deadly, addictive opioids like OxyContin.
Note: 22 January 2021 — this company and the family continues to operate and sell drugs despite BILLIONS in lawsuits filed by state and local governments and tribal governments. These lawsuits are because of the public cost to these governments, totally disregarded by Federal regulators who assessed minimal penalties and the “law” that continues to support them and not citizens.
How is it possible, I wondered, that Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, could have paid over $630 million in criminal and civil fines in 2007 for its wrongdoing in the early years of the opioid epidemic, yet still be making, selling and marketing OxyContin and other opioids with nary a hitch today?
The opioid epidemic has been going on almost 25 years. Opioid overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental death for U.S. residents under age 50. OxyContin was one of the four legally prescribed pain and anti-anxiety drugs that killed Heath…
