Re:Judge rejects Purdue Pharma's $4.5B opioid settlement
by GeekyBear on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:10AM
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> On another hand, HN demands extreme punishment against a pharma company which produced opioids.
They didn't just produce opioids. They fraudulently claimed that the opioids they produced were non-addictive.
>Purdue admits it illegally and misleadingly marketed its opioids, including “to more than 100 health care providers whom the company had good reason to believe were diverting opioids” for misuse; illegally paid doctors to prescribe more opioids; and took part in other fraudulent and illegal practices. Purdue says it did all of this between 2007 and at least 2017 — after a separate guilty plea in 2007 forced the company to pay more than $600 million in fines.
They didn't just produce opioids. They fraudulently claimed that the opioids they produced were non-addictive.
>Purdue admits it illegally and misleadingly marketed its opioids, including “to more than 100 health care providers whom the company had good reason to believe were diverting opioids” for misuse; illegally paid doctors to prescribe more opioids; and took part in other fraudulent and illegal practices. Purdue says it did all of this between 2007 and at least 2017 — after a separate guilty plea in 2007 forced the company to pay more than $600 million in fines.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/business/11drug-web.html
https://www.vox.com/2020/10/21/21526868/purdue-pharma-oxycon...