Oxford University’s Sackler Library is named after multi-millionaire donor Dr Mortimer Sackler, who co-owned Purdue Pharma. The company that created the drug OxyContin.
Oxford University’s Sackler Library is named after multi-millionaire donor Dr Mortimer Sackler, who co-owned Purdue Pharma. The company that created the drug OxyContin.
The billionaire Sackler family, who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, has agreed to pay nearly $4.3 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits accusing them of fueling the opioid crisis in the United States. The huge payment from the Sacklers is part of a larger restructuring plan filed by Purdue on Monday night that intends to get the Connecticut-based … Read more
The billionaire Sackler family, who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, has agreed to pay nearly $4.3 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits accusing them of fueling the opioid crisis in the United States. The huge payment from the Sacklers is part of a larger restructuring plan filed by Purdue on Monday night that intends to get the Connecticut-based … Read more
One of the owners of the company that makes OxyContin says she wouldn’t have done anything differently despite acknowledging during a congressional hearing that the powerful prescription painkiller has played a role in the national opioid crisis. Kathe Sackler and her cousin David Sackler, who are members of the wealthy family that owns Purdue Pharma, made a … Read more
Sackler family member who owns drug firm Purdue tells Congress ‘there’s nothing I would have done differently’ despite role OxyContin played in America’s devastating opioid crisis Kathe Sackler and David Sackler, who are members of the family that owns Purdue Pharma, appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday It is the first time in … Read more