Enlarge / Protesters holding banners outside the courthouse. Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a rally and die-in outside New York’s Southern District Federal Court in White Plains, where Purdue Pharmaceuticals bankruptcy hearing is being held. reader comments 54 with Share this story Members of the Sackler family—the infamous, mega-wealthy ..
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Enlarge / PURDUE PHARMA, STAMFORD, Conn. – 2019/09/12: Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a protest outside Purdue Pharma headquarters over the recent, controversial opioid settlement. reader comments 114 with 86 posters participating Share this story The Department of Justice is fighting to strip the billionaire Sackler family of the sweeping ..
Enlarge / PURDUE PHARMA, STAMFORD, Conn. – 2019/09/12: Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a protest on September 12, 2019, outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, over their recent controversial opioid settlement. reader comments 133 with 85 posters participating Share this story The infamous megarich Sackler family will pay $235 ..
Enlarge / WHITE PLAINS, WESTCHESTER, United States – Oct. 10, 2019: Protesters holding banners outside the courthouse. reader comments 55 with 42 posters participating Share this story A federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday extended “extraordinary” protections for the mega-rich Sackler family amid a call from legal experts for a special examiner to investigate the family’s ..
reader comments 68 with 40 posters participating Share this story Utah man Aaron Shamo, 29, will stand trial starting today over federal charges that he allegedly ran a deadly, multimillion-dollar counterfeit opioid racket on the black market amid the country’s devastating opioid epidemic. Federal prosecutors allege that Shamo and his accomplices pressed hundreds of thousands ..
Enlarge / Members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters hold signs while protesting during the McKesson Corp. annual meeting at the Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce in Irving, Texas, US, on Wednesday, July 26, 2017. reader comments 232 with 125 posters participating Share this story Between 2006 and 2012, opioid drug makers and distributors flooded ..
Enlarge / Insys Therapeutics founder John N. Kapoor leaves federal court in Boston on March 13, 2019. reader comments 155 with 100 posters participating Share this story Opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections Monday, just days after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges and agreeing to pay $225 million to settle ..
Enlarge / Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, are facing hundreds of lawsuits across the country for the company’s alleged role in the opioid epidemic. reader comments 99 with 66 posters participating Share this story Infamous OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma used front organizations and sponsored research to deceive the World ..
Enlarge / If approved, Purdue’s new drug would compete with opioid overdose antidote, naloxone. reader comments 124 with 75 posters participating Share this story Notorious OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma—which has been widely criticized for deceptively marketing its highly addictive painkiller and for its role in spurring the current nationwide epidemic of opioid abuse and overdose deaths—is ..
reader comments 201 with 122 posters participating Share this story Earlier this month, Ars reported on a lawsuit filed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, members of its board, and the mega-rich, secretive family behind it all, the Sacklers. The court filings were the first to allege that the Sacklers—previously known ..