Article 3FX8V The pharma billionaires whose family company created the opioid epidemic are disintegrating into a bickering mess

The pharma billionaires whose family company created the opioid epidemic are disintegrating into a bickering mess

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Cory Doctorow
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The Sackler family is best known for the buildings adorned with their names thanks to their acts of philanthropy, which is either motivated by a public spirit, or by the desperate need for some reputation washing as the public becomes increasingly aware that the family fortune was built on the perfection of shady techniques for marketing addictive drugs, which reached its zenith when Perdue, the family pharma business, created the Oxy epidemic, by falsifying addictiveness research and aggressively recruiting doctors to hook their patients on their lethal products. (more")

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