Posted September 14, 2018
Dr. Richard Sackler, former president of Purdue Pharma, the drug company that ignited the opioid epidemic through aggressive marketing of OxyContin, was awarded a patent for the treatment of opioid addiction, and the FDA has approved the drug. Recently, the company was ordered to pay $635-million after three of its top executives plead guilty to misleading doctors about the addictive nature of OxyContin. Read more.