Sunday, October 29, 2017

OXYCONTIN BILLIONAIRES

The family fortune began in 1952 when three doctors — Arthur (d. 1987), Mortimer (d. 2010) and Raymond Sackler — purchased Purdue, then a small and struggling New York drug manufacturer.
According to The New Yorker, Oxycontin ” has reportedly generated some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue for Purdue” since 1995.
 OxyContin’s sole active ingredient is oxycodone, a chemical cousin of heroin, which makes it highly addictive.  The New Yorker further says Purdue used marketing techniques to deceive the American public of the drug’s true addictive characteristics.

 

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