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May 26, 2016 10:35 am PDT
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How a pharma company made billions off mass murder by faking the science on Oxycontin
When Purdue Pharma's patent on the MS Contin was close to expiry, the Sackler family who owned the company spent millions trying to find a product that could replace the profits they'd lose from generic competition on MS Contin: the result was Oxycontin, a drug that went on to kill Americans at epidemic scale. (more…)
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