(JTA) Richard Sackler and other members of his family are accused of directing their pharmaceutical firm Purdue Pharma to mislead doctors and patients about the dangers of the opioid painkiller OxyContin produced by the company. The Massachusetts attorney general on Tuesday filed internal company communications that provide the first evidence that the Sacklers made company…
Members of the multi-billionaire Sackler family, who own the company that makes the prescription painkiller OxyContin, are facing prosecution and likely a criminal investigation over America’s devastating opioid crisis, The Guardian reported. Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma created and sells OxyContin, a legal narcotic that kills almost 200 people a day. Several family members were recently sued…
About 100 people filled the orange multi-purpose room in the back of a Jewish Community Center in the Five Towns area of Long Island last Monday evening. Men in kippot chatted with women wearing colorful tichels, or head scarves, exchanging thoughts on Israeli news and local politics. The event organizers asked people walking in the…
On a recent Saturday, the photographer Nan Goldin, best known for her mid-1980s photo series “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” led a protest at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Standing in front of the Egyptian Temple of Dendur, the low, rectangular reflective moat that surrounds the Temple swarmed with orange pill bottles that had been…
I served as a congregational rabbi for 35 years. My wife and I raised two children who are now adults. We provided them with a good Jewish education, Jewish camp and a kosher, observant home. Both our children, in large part, have not embraced Judaism. Is it our fault? Some might say we should have…
Elga Khananyeva, 28, stole from her family to buy heroin. Vladimir, 32, started dealing drugs at age 14, two years after he arrived in the United States. Dmitry, 25, shot heroin five times a day before spending three years in rehabilitation. “I can’t get upset every time someone dies anymore,” Dmitry said. The words “opioid…
Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, has embarked on a new ad campaign after coming under fire for manufacturing and distributing the powerful opioid. The company, owned by the Sackler family, is arguing in the ads placed in major newspapers, that is is part of the solution, not of the problem. “We manufacture prescription opioids,” one…
On a beautiful spring day some thirty years ago, I had a heart-to-heart talk with my brother, Duvid. We had come of age in the 1970s and were both active musicians. In those days, the music world meant the availability of drugs, primarily but not exclusively marijuana. Duvid had developed a taste not only for…
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