Tag: OxyContin

We knew the DEA’s illicit fentanyl purge went well beyond One Pill Can Kill; we just didn’t know how well beyond — or how far.

These days killers don’t need guns… They’ve got fentanyl.

Everybody’s got a recovery story. Sometimes they’re funny. Sometimes they’re sad. Most times they’re a lotta bit of both. What about yours?.

Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain adroitly chronicles the rise and (relative) fall of the prescription drug-pushing Sackler Family.

Purdue Pharma is finally paying some of the price for orchestrating the deadly opioid epidemic. But will its chief consultant McKinsey & Company also be penalized? More and more folks insist they should be. Too Sickening for Words “Last month, the pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to charges related to the sale and marketing of the painkiller OxyContin. Even…
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