How Oxycontin, Florida and the Sackler Family Created the Opioid Crisis In America, THE OPIOID CRISIS AND URBAN AMERICA: “NOW FIRMLY A PART OF BIG CITY LIFE”, Opiate Rx Big Pharma And “Profits Before Patients” Have Taken A Toll On American Children - Now A Part Of Daily Life In The USA, INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS = INFANT “NAS”, RICO, WRONGFUL DEATH, NEGLIGENCE AND MORE…, Purdue Pharma Executives and the Sackler Family Named in Massachusetts Opioid Crisis Lawsuit, New York And Other State Court Opioid Litigation Moves Forward Along With Federal Opiate Rx MDL 2804, How Insys Theraputics, Inc. Sold Stock And Killed Americans With The Help Of Doctors, HOW CAN WE SOLVE THE OPIOID CRISIS STARTING NOW? Perhaps when hundreds or thousands of cases are thrown into disarray to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars some Prosecutor or Attorney General with integrity (a doubtful proposition itself) will find the gumption to act in the interest of his constituents rather than at the command of his mega-donors.
I am not done with Purdue and the Sacklers, and I will never sell out the families who have been calling for justice for so long.”, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein said he opposes the settlement because it “does not force the Sacklers to take meaningful responsibility for their actions. Regarding the most prominent current heirs, a daughter of Arthur serves on the board of the Brooklyn Museum with a Sackler Center for "Feminist Art." Purdue paid doctors through its doctor speaker program and an electronic health records company to drive up prescriptions for OxyContin.

The Sacklers - The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has a Sackler Wing which was bestowed in 1978. Purdue Pharma merely refined this substance into a pure form with a time release formula ("Contin" stands for "continuous release"). Yet the fulcrum in this particular story is not only the means and method but the motive. Importantly, none of the descendants of Arthur Sackler have any association with Purdue Pharma or OxyContin, their branch of the family having sold the company to the other two. California Appeals Court Denies Insurance Coverage For Opioid Drug Makers Defense: Will other insurers say no to opioid coverage? Rather than remorse for their Blood Libel against the American nation, the Sacklers did not make the cure for their poison readily available free of charge to those whose lives they willingly destroyed but instead designed to make another fortune by withholding the antidote for the vast suffering masses they themselves had so ruthlessly abused. Jonathan Sackler, part of the $13billion Sackler family which made its money selling prescription drugs including opioid painkiller OxyContin, died from cancer on June 30 aged 65, the firm said. “Justice, in this case, requires exposing the truth and holding the perpetrators accountable, not rushing a settlement to beat an election. When a reporter for The Saturday Review became suspicious and went to conduct interviews the sleuth discovered the physicians did not even exist - simply psychological trickery from a worthless huckster. FDA identifies harm reported from sudden discontinuation of opioid pain medicines and requires label changes to guide prescribers on gradual, individualized tapering, Insys Therapeutics “Fentanyl Spray Criminal Trial” In Jury Deliberations, RICHARD SACKLER DEPOSITION TRANSCRIPT UNSEALED IN KENTUCKY vs. PURDUE PHARMA, FDA To McKesson – You Failed In Opioid Diversion Reporting: “FDA Cites Proof Of Failure To Report In-House Diversion”, Purdue Pharma’s Historical Bad Conduct Started 50 Years Ago: “Crafted By The Sackler Brothers”, Why Did The FDA Approve A Drug 10 Times Stronger Than Fentanyl-When Opiates Are Still Killing Thousands. The most recent figure was cited as $13 Billion spread among 20 relations. The Sacklers - Although difficult to ascertain given the diffusion of assets by the secretive cabal, according to Forbes Magazine in 2015 the publication stated the Sackler fortune at $14 Billion. This is the Sackler Family, which has murdered more individuals by willful neglect and intentional disinformation than El Chapo ever dreamed of harming. Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc.All rights reserved. Meanwhile, Bruce M. Bagley at the University of Miami states this is vastly overrated and El Chapo has $2-$4 Billion "at most.". Even so, the Sinaloa Cartel of which El Chapo was the leader has a record of extreme violence and brutality. (Even so, the Sacklers were not arrested for Intentional Malpractice or Mass Murder. Instead, it allows billionaires to keep their billions without any accounting for how much they really made.”, In a letter sent last week to Attorney General William Barr, 25 state attorneys general urged the Justice Department to “avoid having special ties to an opioid company” that “caused a national crisis.”. They did this with the complicity of tens of thousands of physicians who received "kickbacks" and other perks in the form of vacations, luxury dinners or other inducements. He was trained under a Dutch psychoanalyst described as "Freud's favorite disciple." His timeline, generally speaking, begins in the 1960s planting Marijuana with his brothers. El Chapo - Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was born 1957 (or 1954, official sources do not agree) in La Tuna, Mexico. These assiduously unnamed individuals should be regarded as equally immoral, to say nothing of being far more corrupt. Trump, Covid, the US Election and Common Decency, Turkey outraged about Putin's veto on Nagorno-Karabakh talks. to market OxyContin to children as young as eleven years old. Once his customers discontinued his product they were left in peace. Needless to say, The Sacklers will never be rebuked for their actions.

Three declined to comment through a press representative. El Chapo - Importantly, the Sinaloa Cartel is only one of six major drug organizations in Mexico today. On January 19, 2017 El Chapo was turned over to the United States where he is still being held. This does not take into account the millions who have been addicted to prescription drugs by the Sacklers and when their health insurance has run out been forced to resort to using illegal street substances such as Heroin, which is far cheaper. A real agreement to resolve these cases would force the Sacklers to pay more and would provide funding to help pay for the treatment and programs people need to get well.”, New York Attorney General Letitia James wrote, “Today’s deal doesn’t account for the hundreds of thousands of deaths or millions of addictions caused by Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family. The family members — including Richard Sackler, David Sackler, Mortimer D.A. The billionaire Sackler family withdrew more than $12.2 billion from the company since the mid-1990s. Members of the Sackler family will pay only $225 million in civil penalties, which is a tiny percentage of the infamous family’s billions. ), Eventually in 2003 the Drug Enforcement Administration concluded Purdue engaged "aggressive methods" and "very much exacerbated OxyContin's abuse." ), By 2002 ordinary citizens and relatives of deceased users began to organize against Purdue Pharma. El Chapo - According to Time magazine in 2015 El Chapo was directly responsible for around 34,000 deaths. (Hogen was not arrested for Intimidation or Making Terroristic Threats. A sizeable proportion have readily recommended OxyContin to patients over the years. In other words, no one goes to jail until the worst of the worst go to jail - Herein Lies The Path To Justice. In one he wrote, the launch of OxyContin pills would create "a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition." To the extent a user "got clean," went into Rehab or otherwise kicked their habit El Chapo had no more use for them. By 2017 estimates had grown to a doubtful $14 Billion.

"In the end there was like, no one would even speak to him but me," LaGreca said. As of January 8, 2016, Guzman was taken in by authorities at Los Mochis, Mexico. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said they knew the drug was addictive, but greed drove them forward. "I would like to see the heirs of the Sackler family put in jail because that's where they belong." Announced on October 21, 2020, the controversial settlement let the nefarious Sackler family, which owns Purdue and falsely marketed the painkiller, to avoid prison – for now. It was inexpensive to produce and by 1995 widely available in other products. The settlement could set the path for a resolution of the cases. To wit, until the Sackler Scum are judged by the courts then no one else should be punished either. This is the Sackler Family, which has murdered more individuals by willful neglect and intentional disinformation than El Chapo ever dreamed of harming.

These verdicts were hailed by the Mass Media and Public Prosecutors as a major victory for law and order. Yet at the same time a far more nefarious international cohort of apparent criminals walks free with nary a peep from Media or Prosecutors. His children are reputed to number from twelve to thirteen. "People say, if used as directed, well the drug abuses the patient because the drug is what takes control of their brain," LaGreca said. Oxycodone itself had been developed in Germany in 1916.
Purdue wanted to settle its federal legal troubles under a Trump administration, which it sensed would cut a better deal than a new Biden administration. "They don't want to accept blame for this. Stream CBSN live or on demand for FREE on your TV, computer, tablet, or smartphone. The Sacklers - In 1959 it emerged a company Arthur Sackler owned, MD Publications, had paid Henry Welch, Chief of the Antibiotics Division of the Food and Drug Administration, almost $300,000 to secure his assistance in promoting certain products. Samuel Paty murder: Where will France go now? Although each of the three brothers would retain one-third ownership, Raymond and Mortimer were co-Directors.