The Vespiary
Site => News => Topic started by: hamsterbob on October 22, 2020, 09:56:41 AM
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Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, has agreed to plead guilty to three federal criminal charges for its role in creating the nation's opioid crisis and will pay more than $8 billion and close down the company.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/21/business/purdue-pharma-guilty-plea/index.html
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Politics aside, maybe that's for the better? Such addictive opioids is something I frown upon - maybe contrary to the general philosophy of drug-interested chemists.
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It's one thing buying Heroin, for example, from the streets. There is damn sure no implied "fitness/quality control, known strength".
Purdue aggressively marketed Oxy's, and outright stated that they not addictive more than 1% of the time, if taken under Dr, supervision. They KNEW they were lying.
Really glad I just plain don't care for opiates, unless I am really hurting.
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They won't close down, the company will be sold to make up for the money needed to pay the fines (because the Sacklers withdrew 10 Billion $ in anticipation of the lawsuit) and they will still make Oxycontin.
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Yeah, Sacklers bought their way out of this fiasco. Thank God Trump has drained the swamp!
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.... the plan to create a government-controlled company out of the assets of Purdue Pharma, arguing that the government should not be in the business of selling OxyContin.
/CJ
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Oxy will never go away, at least during our lifetimes.
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Oxy will never go away, at least during our lifetimes.
Oxycodone is likely already longer on this rock than us, considering its presence in the nectar of a certain orchid species, and maybe will still be here after we're already gone: https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=15065.msg54168541#msg54168541
But first it was "invented" by humans, yet little did we know that a plant was once again the first, not us, at this :D