Judge Overturns Purdue Pharma Opioid Settlement
(George Frey/Reuters) A federal judge in Manhattan has rejected a roughly $4.5 billion settlement that would have shielded the Sackler family, the billionaire former owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, from future lawsuits over opioids. Judge Colleen McMahon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday struck down the…
Purdue Pharma Owners Were Wary Of Lawsuits Before Moving $10 Billion From Company
The Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma LP, have been front and center in the nation’s opioid crisis over the last decade. The crisis has taken over 450,000 lives since 1999 and prescription drugs like OxyContin and fentanyl have been the culprit in many cases. Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, has been in the midst of bankruptcy…
Ex-Big Pharma Sales Rep: ‘We Are Trained To Misinform’
“There is no such thing as a safe drug.” This comes from ex-pharmaceutical sales rep and author of the book, Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher, Gwen Olsen. For 15 years, Gwen was living an unintentional lie, working as a pharmaceutical sales rep for some of today’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturers, including Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers…
COVID–19: The Big Pharma players behind UK Government lockdown
“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas”. Dr George Brock Chisholm, who served as the first Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) from 1948 to 1953 In Part One of Who controls the British Government response to…