Jonathan Sackler’s Bouncer Foundation: Opioid-Funded Ed Reform
Purdue Pharma is the company that produces the opioid, OxyContin.
The Sackler family– including noted ed reformer Jonathan Sackler— owns Purdue Pharma.
Jonathan Sackler
In June 2018, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts sued Purdue Pharma and Sackler family; on January 31, 2019, Massachusetts attorney general, Maura Healy filed an amended, longer, suit, for Purdue Pharma’s having “created the [opioid drug] epidemic and profited from it through a web of illegal deceit.” From the amended lawsuit:
Dangerous opioid drugs are killing people across Massachusetts. Prescription medicines, which are supposed to protect our health, are instead ruining people’s lives. Every community in our Commonwealth suffers from the epidemic of addiction and death.Purdue Pharma created the epidemic and profited from it through a web of illegal deceit. First, Purdue deceived Massachusetts doctors and patients to get more and more people on its dangerous drugs. Second, Purdue misled them to use higher and more dangerous doses. Third, Purdue deceived them to stay on its drugs for longer and more harmful periods of time. All the while, Purdue peddled falsehoods to keep patients away from safer alternatives. Even when Purdue knew people in Massachusetts were addicted and dying, Purdue treated doctors and their patients as targets to sell more drugs. At the top of Purdue, a small group of executives led the deception and pocketed millions of dollars. …Defendant Purdue Pharma Inc. is a drug company incorporated in New York with its principal place of business in Connecticut. …The seventeen individual defendants are current and former directors of Purdue Pharma Inc. …Defendants Richard Sackler, Beverly Sackler, David Sackler, Ilene Sackler Lefcourt, Jonathan Sackler, Kathe Sackler, Mortimer Sackler, and Theresa Sackler controlled Purdue’s misconduct. Each of them took a seat on the Board of Directors of Purdue Pharma Inc. Together, they always held the controlling majority of the Board…. They directed deceptive sales and marketing practices deep within Purdue….
According to March 04, 2019, STAT News, Purdue Pharma has filed a motion to CONTINUE READING: Jonathan Sackler’s Bouncer Foundation: Opioid-Funded Ed Reform | deutsch29
