Posted on 12/06/2019 1:21:58 PM PST by C19fan
Tufts University is cutting ties with the Sacklers, saying it will remove the name from buildings and will no longer accept donations due to the family's role in the opioid crisis.
The Sacklers owns Purdue Pharma, which makes OxyContin, a powerful narcotic that has been implicated in thousands of Americans falling to addiction and/or fatally overdosing.
Several institutions have vowed to stop accepting gifts from the family, but Tufts, in Boston, is the first to publicly take letters off the signs of buildings.
On Thursday, the Sackler name was dropped from five campus facilities and programs, including the biomedical sciences school, the medical school building, a laboratory and two research funds.
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I assume the naming was attached to an endowment.
So are they going to give the money back too?
The Sacklers should be subjected to asset forfeiture if you ask me. Use the money to fund the wall and set up treatment centers.
My question as well.
Just because a product is made that needs prior approval for use you can’t blame the manufacturer but those that okay its use without supervision.
Extra smart plan because you’ll never experience pain. And if you do you’ll tough it out. Unlike those degenerate, crybaby drug addicts!
What goes around, comes around.
I wonder if this is the same Sackler’s with an Art Gallery on the DC Mall? It is a great museum.
I don’t understand your point. I don’t have a problem with people with opioid addiction, I know people who struggle with it, and also people who died from it. My disabled uncle was lied to when they said his pain medication was non-addictive, and he believed it. Millions of other people were lied to and set up for it by unscrupulous medical practitioners and Perdue Pharma. I’m not saying Opioids should be banned, but the Sacklers shouldn’t be allowed to profit from abusing the system and ruining millions of people’s lives. The Sacklers are no different than the drug cartels, in my opinion they’re actually worse because the cartels don’t pretend to be anything other than what they are.
The family and foundation has nothing to do with the Pharma production. More dumb liberals hurting others while trying ri seem relevant about anything.
You are an idiot. They own and operate a pharmaceutical company. They don’t stalk the streets peddling bootleg pills, they produce medicine. People who overdose do this to themselves.
I suppose if you put a gun to your head and scatter what brains you have across your living room, that is Smith & Wesson’s fault.
I hate phony causality arguments.
It was great stuff when I had my wisdom teeth pulled - on it for only a week then on Tylenol. But yeah, pull the name after they funded some stuff.
You’re the idiot. Perdue Pharmaceuticals lied about their product, and even went to the lengths of buying medical journals and having them print puff pieces about their own medication and “pain is the fifth vital sign” to entice doctors to prescribe. There is a whole lot of systemic corruption involved that everyone here casually ignores with platitudes about personal responsibility. They had internal memos joking about the fact that their sales numbers were grossly outpacing what they should be. In fact, the Sacklers encouraged their sales reps to pressure doctors to prescribe generics if they couldn’t get them on name brand because it turns out they had stakes in a second company producing them. This is inexcusable criminal behavior.
My first thought, too.
You cannot blame the manufacturer. Doctors over prescribing yes, but who is ultimately in charge of oneself. Here in Maryland we have people overdosing on fentanyl some five times. That is not the producer, that is the user.
If a manufacturer engages in fraud, then they absolutely can be blamed. They engaged in actual fraud, which is why they have been so quick to settle. If Perdue didn’t deliberately mislead about their product, then I would agree with you.
Another institute taking the PC route.
Tucker Carlson had a segment on Purdue Pharma Thursday evening...said they donated $50,000 a year to the American Enterprise Institute and in return the AEI was putting out articles claiming that oxycontin was not addictive. If it is all as Tucker claimed, the AEI sold out its principles pretty cheaply.
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