TAU medical school is dropping the Sackler name after years of pressure over the family firm's connection to the opioid crisis, joining Oxford University and the Guggenheim and Metropolitan museums in New York
Many institutions dropped the Sackler name as lawsuits over the opioid epidemic piled up, but Tel Aviv University has resisted pressure to do so
A federal judge on Thursday overturned Purdue Pharma’s $4.5 billion opioid settlement, which had shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from future lawsuits related to the epidemic. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in New York wrote in a 142-page opinion that the settlement that granted immunity to the Sacklers was “inconsistent”…
Waves of agony repeatedly knocked the breath out of me, as pressure built behind my eyes, producing visual auras that blurred my sight and made me nauseous. The pain was so unique, so all-encompassing, that I lost all rational capabilities, screaming and kicking as if possessed. My first such debilitating experience occurred when I was…
I’ve lost too many people to opioids to be surprised by anything I saw in “Dopesick.” The eight episode miniseries by Hulu, premiering Oct. 13, dramatizes the criminally deceptive marketing behind OxyContin, Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family and what led to a substance abuse crisis affecting millions of Americans. It is loosely based on…
Purdue Pharma has a bankruptcy plan that may ensure the Sackler family keeps their fortune. Purdue, maker of the painkiller OxyContin, filed for Chapter 11 as it began the process of the settling several lawsuits, The Washington Post reported. The company asked the judge on Wednesday to temporarily pause the lawsuits racking up against the…
(JTA) — The Sackler family-owned Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy as part of a tentative $12 billion settlement with dozens of state and local governments that filed lawsuits accusing the company of fueling and profiting from the opioid epidemic. The company’s board met Sunday evening to approve the move, Reuters reported, and the bankruptcy was…
Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical company owned by the Sackler family that lied about the addictiveness of its drugs and fueled a national health crisis that has claimed 400,000 lives, is currently the subject of over 2,000 lawsuits in the U.S. The company can now add Italy to its list of woes, as detailed in a…
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