Imperium der Schmerzen von Patrick Radden Keefe– Sackler-Dynastie, OxyContin & Opioidkrise https://www.lesering.de/id/4941101/-imperium-der-schmerzen-rezension-inhalt-analyse/ #InvestigativerJournalismus #BaillieGiffordPrize #NarrativeNonfiction #PatrickRaddenKeefe #Pharmaindustrie #Buchrezension #Buchrezension #PurduePharma #Opioidkrise #OxyContin #Denaming
#PurduePharma wins broad support from U.S. states for $7.4-billion #opioid settlement https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-purdue-pharma-opioid-lawsuits-settlement-sackler-family/ #BigPharma
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Twee jaar geleden had ik een contract van consultancybureau McKinsey in handen — een heilige graal voor talloze ambitieuze leeftijdsgenoten. Hoe lukt het consultancybureaus, banken en advocatenkantoren om zoveel jongeren te strikken? Wat winnen deze sectoren, en wat verliezen wij als samenleving?
Illustraties door Luka van Diepen (voor De Correspondent).
In 1996 bracht geneesmiddelenbedrijf Purdue Pharma een nieuw medicijn op de Amerikaanse markt. OxyContin werd neergezet als een veilig en effectief middel tegen chronische pijn. Eén tablet bij zonsopgang, de tweede net voor het slapengaan, en je zou nooit meer last hebben van deze klachten.
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#Tweejaargeleden #McKinsey #LukavanDiepen #DeCorrespondent #1996 #PurduePharma #Amerikaanse #OxyContin #Eén #tweede #5
[06:27] Purdue and Sacklers reach $7.4bn opiod crisis settlement
Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners have reached a new $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits alleging that the pain medication OxyContin caused a widespread opioid addiction crisis in the US, several state attorneys general have said.
https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0124/1492630-purdue-sackler/
#PurduePharma #Sackler #$7.4billion #thousands #OxyContin #US
Purdue Pharma and the company’s Sackler family leadership have agreed to pay $7.4 billion to settle unprecedented litigation over their role in the opioid crisis. Read more from @abc
The "#WarOnDrugs" ensured that when an American dies from a drug overdose it is an American company, like #PurduePharma, that made money killing them. (her)
McKinsey & Company to pay $650 million for role in opioid crisis | NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5155962/mckinsey-purdue-opioid-prosecution-doj
McKinsey & Company agrees to pay $650M for helping Purdue Pharma boost opioid sales
https://apnews.com/article/mckinsey-justice-department-criminal-penalty-opioids-crisis-d47d1bc1c4e14288927c2aea2369b789
* helped opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma boost sales of highly addictive drug OxyContin
* McKinsey “deeply sorry” for its work for Purdue Pharma 
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The #DailyMail is the #PurduePharma of the news industry
Readers get #Dopesick on hate
It’s #ReviewTime
#Dopesick is an 8 part TV series based on a book of the same name written by #BethMacy & stars include #MichaelKeaton (Batman), #KaitlynDever & #RosarioDawson
It deals with corruption, corporate & human greed, systemic public health failure & the resulting human cost. #PurduePharma produce an opioid, lie about its addictive properties, good people suffered needlesly & good people faced a long uphill battle to deal with it
It’s addictive viewing - watch it
Rating - 9/10
Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
Plans would have provided billions of dollars to help address the nation’s opioid crisis while protecting the family that owns Purdue Pharma from future lawsuits
ugh: WaPo, still: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/27/purdue-pharma-supreme-court-opioid-bankruptcy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813369
#NEWS: 4 major rulings handed down from the #SupremeCourt today:
Allowing access to an emergency #abortion in Idaho…for now Overturning the #purduepharma bankruptcy deal #Sackler A blow to #ClimateChange by limiting an #EPA #airquality programHampering the ability of the #SEC to prosecute #fraud
BIG NOTE: Instead of finishing in June #SCOTUS will release decisions into July.
Here’s a list of the undecided cases (like #Trump #immunity) & the rulings so far:
https://wapo.st/45QknX6
SCOTUS tears down Sacklers’ immunity, blowing up opioid settlement - Enlarge / Grace Bisch holds a picture of stepson Eddie Bisch who died a... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2034031 #opioidcrisis #purduepharma #supremecourt #bankruptcy #settlement #addiction #oxycontin #overdose #science #policy #opioid #scotus
#GiftArticle on #SCOTUS’ ruling on #PurduePharma #opioid case
The #SupremeCourt blocked a controversial proposed Purdue #Pharma bankruptcy plan that would have provided billions to help address the nation’s #OpioidCrisis in exchange for protecting the #Sackler family from future lawsuits.
The closely watched fight involving the maker of #OxyContin is part of a national reckoning over the role of #drugmakers & others in the #PublicHealth opioid #addiction crisis.
On the #Pharma #sackler #opiod case:
Edward Neiger, who represents thousands of victims who stood to benefit from the #PurduePharma bankruptcy settlement that the #SCOTUS blocked, called the decision “a major setback for the families who lost loves ones to overdose and for those still struggling with addiction.” In a statement, he said that “victims have been abandoned by every branch of the government.”
It's not merely that the #Sacklers - - a multigenerational, ultra-wealthy drug-pusher dynasty - made billions while murdering hundreds of thousands of Americans by lying about the safety of #Oxycontin, the flagship product of their #PurduePharma drug company. *It's that they got away with it*.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/05/third-party-nonconsensual-releases/#au-recherche-du-pedos-perdue
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#SCOTUS justices seemed divided on Mon over a bankruptcy settlement for #PurduePharma that would funnel billions to address the #opioid epidemic in exchange for shielding members of the wealthy #Sackler family from related #civil #lawsuits.
The #DOJ US Trustee Prgm, had challenged the deal, saying that it violated #federal #law by guaranteeing such wide-ranging #legal #immunity for the Sacklers.
#SCOTUS Blocks #PurduePharma Deal That Shields #SacklerFamily
The #OxyContin manufacturer has long been accused of ignoring the drug's addictive qualities in favor of profit.
"For the wealthy, bankruptcy is the sport of kings, a way to skip out on consequences. For the poor, bankruptcy is an anchor – or a noose. This is by design: judges who preside over elite bankruptcies speak of their protagonists as heroic "risk takers" and tiptoe around any consequences, lest these titans be chained to a mortal's fate, costing us all the benefits of their entrepreneurial genius."
another must-read from @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed
WAITUP!
1. so today the Clarence Thomas bombshell drops.
2. then SCOTUS all of a sudden has a conscience and blocks the #PurduePharma bankruptcy due to that little detail of the criminal liability
3. and then just like that, Joe Manchin, the guy who sent a letter in 2022 to Merrick Garland asking DoJ to investigate the Sacklers
that Joe Manchin, ONCE AGAIN, is shaking down the Democrats cuz they won't meet his protection price
SOMETHING IN THE MILK AIN'T CLEAN
