OxyContin’s Sackler Family: What Do You Think The Penalty Should Be for Selling Drugs That Have Killed 200,000 People?
<p><strong><em>Note: 22 January 2021 — this company and the family continues to operate and sell drugs despite BILLIONS in lawsuits filed by state and local governments and tribal governments. These lawsuits are because of the public cost to these governments, totally disregarded by Federal regulators who assessed minimal penalties and the “law” that continues to support them and not citizens.</em></strong></p>
<p>How is it possible, I wondered, that Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, could have paid <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/id/18591525" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">over $630 million in criminal and civil fines in 2007</a> for its wrongdoing in the early years of the opioid epidemic, yet still be making, selling and marketing OxyContin and other opioids with nary a hitch today?</p>
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