The American opioid epidemic saw deaths from prescription opioid drugs rise by a staggering 200 percent between 2000 and 2014. This didn’t just happen by accident. It was the result of a calculated plot orchestrated by firms including Purdue Pharma, Janssen, and Cephalon. These companies weren’t merely marketing dangerous drugs; they were cynically weaponizing trusted doctors – who they referred to as “Key Opinion Leaders” – to promote their highly addictive opioid painkillers.
A revealing 2024 review of documents from the University of California, San Francisco Opioid Industry Document Archive lays bare a sordid scheme in which pharmaceutical corporations bribed and groomed key opinion leaders to aggressively push prescription opioids, deliberately downplay the risk of addiction, and help rake in billions of dollars.
To learn more about the American opioid epidemic, see this article on our website.
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Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, are set to pay $7.4 billion to settle lawsuits regarding the drug company’s manufacturing and distribution of opioids.
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The American opioid epidemic saw deaths from prescription opioid drugs rise by a staggering 200 percent between 2000 and 2014. This didn’t just happen by accident. It was the result of a calculated plot orchestrated by firms including Purdue Pharma, Janssen, and Cephalon. These companies weren’t merely marketing dangerous drugs; they were cynically weaponizing trusted doctors – who they referred to as “Key Opinion Leaders” – to promote their highly addictive opioid painkillers.
A revealing 2024 review of documents from the University of California, San Francisco Opioid Industry Document Archive lays bare a sordid scheme in which pharmaceutical corporations bribed and groomed key opinion leaders to aggressively push prescription opioids, deliberately downplay the risk of addiction, and help rake in billions of dollars.
To learn more about the American opioid epidemic, see this article on our website.
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