Exclusive: OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma exploring bankruptcy - sources

Reuters ^ | March 4, 2019 | Staff

[C19fan]

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is exploring filing for bankruptcy to address potentially significant liabilities from roughly 2,000 lawsuits alleging the drugmaker contributed to the deadly opioid crisis sweeping the United States, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.

The potential move shows how Purdue and its wealthy owners, the Sackler family, are under pressure to respond to mounting litigation accusing the company of misleading doctors and patients about risks associated with prolonged use of its prescription opioids.

[C19fan]

The Sackler's trying to protect their fortune earned as the greatest drug pushers in human history.

[moovova]

Can’t they just pay off in product?

[HamiltonJay]

Will the execs who pushed this poison and lied about it be held personally accountable? All signs point to no...

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

The Sackler’s (mass murderers) will not be affected by this. They have secured their investment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Hc8UmBSKg

[miss marmelstein]

Guess you never had a serious toothache on a Saturday night.

[HamiltonJay]

Of course they won’t, both parties take too much money from Pharma to make sure these animals ever pay a price.

[Rappini]

I’m allergic to most pain meds from Vicodin and anything associated with it, the only this my body can take is Oxi.

[Jumper]

They recognize 3D Printers as more a threat than lawyers.

[DJ MacWoW]

Oh yes! This drug manufacturer is EVIL....as evil as gun manufacturers!
No doctor knows that opioid use is addicting but THEY knew and they FORCED people to misuse medications!

*extreme sarcasm*

[C19fan]

The one difference is gun makers do not lie about their products. Perdue lied about the addictive nature of Oxycotin.

[DJ MacWoW]

The one difference is gun makers do not lie about their products. Perdue lied about the addictive nature of Oxycotin.

Seriously?! Give it a rest. I know opioids are addicting and I'm just an average person. Where's the secret?

[Zhang Fei]

[The one difference is gun makers do not lie about their products. Perdue lied about the addictive nature of Oxycotin.]

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Opium, and its derivatives (Oxycontin and all the rest), have been acknowledged to be addictive probably before Herodotus wrote about lotus eaters - for thousands of years.

[treetopsandroofs]

Big Media’s anti-pharma campaign articles often aren’t DIRECTLY related to politics, and so many of us just desperately want to believe what they excrete....

It makes life so much easier, like mindlessly voting Democrat and hating the existence of all Republican men, women and children. Especially the children.

[gaijin]

Meet the original billionaire inventer of opiods, the SACKLER FAMILY..!

Now let's take look at opioid deaths in the USA over time:

Wow, that's a lot. I wonder what might help to account for that amazing growth:

Shameful, huh..? In view of such evil ambition, I wonder how profitable opiods are, huh..? The Sackler family owns an incredible 1/3 of the entire legal opiods market and they route all of their profits through Bermuda, where they own a non-descript office building.

I wonder HOW rich you can get...

But that's just ONE of their many houses.

This one goes for $32 million dollars and it's in Bel Air, next to Beverly Hills.

After HOOKING people, you probably won't believe that they were also recently granted a patent for a drug to get people UN-hooked, would you..?

Yes, paid to hook people, then paid to UN-hook them. Nice biz, huh...?

Nice medal, maybe he planted a flag on Mount Suribachi, right...?

Uh-huh, sure...!

If you weren't in the military, could you wear a serious look on your face while you walked around with a MEDAL on your suit jacket..?

That takes real brass.

[gaijin]

Hilarious..!

And, so, So true..!

[ifinnegan]

“Purdue and its wealthy owners”

What difference does it make if they’re wealthy?

Is this a news article or a Democrat commercial?

[ifinnegan]

Notice how the Democrats and leftists try to demonize people for being wealthy.

[DJ MacWoW]

Agreed. There are so many tentacles on this story alone, such as the drugs pouring across the border and the absence of personal responsibility. Democrats don’t want to stop the illegal drugs and they don’t want people to take charge of their own lives but they’d love to crash a big business with job losses. They’d blame Trump. Somehow.

[ifinnegan]

Comments here might as well be DU or Bernie Bro crap.

[Hojczyk]

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Beth Macy

They sold it as not addictive...but it was..