How a pharma company made billions off mass murder by faking the science on Oxycontin
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1F4CF)
When Purdue Pharma's patent on the MS Contin was close to expiry, the Sackler family who owned the company spent millions trying to find a product that could replace the profits they'd lose from generic competition on MS Contin: the result was Oxycontin, a drug that went on to kill Americans at epidemic scale. (more")