Tufts University removes the Sackler name from five buildings and programs due to the family's role in the opioid crisis

UK Daily Mail ^ | December 6, 2019 | Mary Kekatos

[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.

[Gay State Conservative]

Also in Boston...it was a few months ago that the usual suspects focused on yet another "racist". This time it was Tom Yawkey,a long deceased legend of the Boston Red Sox.

So after some weeks of demands the MBTA changed the name of one of its commuter rail stations from "Yawkey" to something else.But there are other things that bears the family's name...one of which is a major building of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute,a world famous cancer treatment and research center.

I guess the family just gave too much $$$ to change the name.

[Notthereyet]

“And if you do you’ll tough it out. Unlike those degenerate, crybaby drug addicts!”
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There’s the rub in the ointment, coaster123: The drugs can cause the brain/body to be rewired on some folks.

Opiods to some folks can compare like food to folks who go to Overeaters Anonymous, in each struggles.

While my food addiction doesn’t cause outward destruction to the neighborhood it does add destructive costs to my medical community and that in turn gets passed on to the other folks in my insurance pool.

I work within my weakness and go to the Gym to also try to reign in the damage I caused to my body over the years.

That said, it’s an everyday struggle.

I’m not going to give blanket excuses to Opiod users, and especially the drug dealers.

Drug dealers need the Death Penalty with it comes to the Opiods because they DO know the exact harm and especially the illegal Opiods.

It’s also a known chain of weakness of Opiod usage to mental illness. The mental illness is not even even cared to in such an extent of being able to place folks needing watching into those facilities needed. That is due to the Supreme Court ruling years ago, and now to the costs passed on to all the insurance companies.

It’s a hard nut to crack.

You need to be thankful, and I do mean THANKFUL, coaster123 if you’ve never fallen prey to Opiods.

I am in that .001 percent than cannot take most pain drugs because of extremely nasty mental side affects, so I thank the Lord God for forcing me to work through all my pain without the possibility of drugs.

He knows all my weaknesses and figures, I guess my enjoyment and true addiction to Comfort Food is enough for my shoulders.

[Notthereyet]

I agree with you, Shadow44.

The Sacklers were made aware a long time ago by their lawyers of the increased sales. And of the issues with Opiod dependence.

They are like the old time Coal Mining and or Cotton Plantation families. It was okay to make the money on the misery of others as long as it didn’t come back to haunt them.

The Sacklers got their tax deductions for contributions of millions to the school. Naming the various buildings was simply a nice touch. It wasn’t for Charity. It was for tax purposes.

[DeplorableGirl]

And yet not a single pharma company or doctor or anything else forced anyone to swallow fistfuls of Oxy.
It’s called personal responsibility.
If a drug is negatively affecting your
emotions, thinking & relationships you tell you doctor to adjust/change meds. Or quit taking it.
You do not continue taking a med to
the point of addiction, then scream
it’s big pharma’s fault.
It’s not about pain to most people, it’s about getting high.