Carolyn Barber, MD on Nostr: #SCOTUS today tossed out a controversial bankruptcy $8B deal involving Purdue Pharma, ...
#SCOTUS today tossed out a controversial bankruptcy $8B deal involving Purdue Pharma, maker of the highly addictive painkiller Oxycontin. In exchange for providing compensation to victims of the opioid crisis and state and local govts, the Sacklers (owners of Purdue) would have been shielded from all future liability,
Recall that Purdue aggressively marketed OxyContin as having a very low addiction risk(<1%), targeted & awarded high-prescribing docs lucrative bonuses & lobbied hard for 1/
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