The Purdue Pharma Sacklers

[EasternVol]

Should they get to keep their fortunes? Will they?

Supreme Court presses Purdue Pharma on absolving Sackler family of opioid liabilities

The US Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case that could decide if the billionaire Sackler family that controlled OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma can use bankruptcy to shield their personal fortunes from opioid-related liabilities.

finance.yahoo.com

 

[rekinhavoc]

Should they get to keep their fortunes? Will they?

Supreme Court presses Purdue Pharma on absolving Sackler family of opioid liabilities

The US Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case that could decide if the billionaire Sackler family that controlled OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma can use bankruptcy to shield their personal fortunes from opioid-related liabilities.

finance.yahoo.com

They should be in prison.

 

[jp1]

Should they get to keep their fortunes? Will they?

Supreme Court presses Purdue Pharma on absolving Sackler family of opioid liabilities

The US Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case that could decide if the billionaire Sackler family that controlled OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma can use bankruptcy to shield their personal fortunes from opioid-related liabilities.

finance.yahoo.com

No they shouldn't. They pulled billions out of the company prior to the bankruptcy that should be going to the lawsuit compensation.

Will they get to keep their fortunes? Most likely.

 

[marcusluvsvols]

They should be in prison.

This. So much this. There are lots of dictators that are responsible for less deaths than them.

 

[Jxn Vol]

String them up by their Sacklers

 

[DC_Vol]

I have really grown to hate Purdue, especially after this year’s basketball game.

 

[Septic]

Sacklers didn't make people take the drugs. Are they any more responsible for the deaths than say Remington or S&W?

 

[85SugarVol]

Sacklers didn't make people take the drugs. Are they any more responsible for the deaths than say Remington or S&W?

Nope.

 

[hog88]

Sacklers didn't make people take the drugs. Are they any more responsible for the deaths than say Remington or S&W?

I don’t think S&W is marketing their products saying they are safe to shoot your self with.

 

[EasternVol]

Sacklers didn't make people take the drugs. Are they any more responsible for the deaths than say Remington or S&W?

Did Remington or S&W lie about the safety of their products and otherwise unethically market their guns?
Actually in a way they did make a lot of people take their drugs through their sales schemes.

 

[Septic]

I don’t think S&W is marketing their products saying they are safe to shoot your self with.

Just trying to determine how an inanimate object is suddenly responsible for the actions of its users.

 

[Septic]

Did Remington or S&W lie about the safety of their products and otherwise unethically market their guns?
Actually in a way they did make a lot of people take their drugs through their sales schemes.

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I've taken Oxy, voluntarily. It was both safe and effective.

 

[EasternVol]

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I've taken Oxy, voluntarily. It was both safe and effective.

The way they sold it, doctors prescribed it for many cases that something much weaker and less addictive would have sufficed. So it got wider exposure and there were more addictions than there should have been.
I'm glad it worked for you.

 

[kiddiedoc]

The opioid epidemic is largely attributable to the unethical marketing that made a lot of people extremely, extremely rich, while hiding the dangers of the narcotics.

 

[jp1]

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I've taken Oxy, voluntarily. It was both safe and effective.

How much, how often, how long, which formulation?

 

[LouderVol]

Just trying to determine how an inanimate object is suddenly responsible for the actions of its users.

I am pretty sure the argument here is about the fraud, and other dubious actions, of the manufacturer, and not the product itself.

 

[apevol]

Purdue marketed oxycontin as a safer and less addictive alternative to morphine.

Also in the bleakest period of the opioid epidemic the majority of oxy purchased on the street originated from warehouse diversion. (someone relatively high up would have had to be involved)

 

[InVOLuntary]

Are the same folks wanting this law suite the same ones that want to legalize drugs?

 

[hog88]

Are the same folks wanting this law suite the same ones that want to legalize drugs?

IDK what the 2 have to do with each other?

 

[SlipKidVol]

Sacklers didn't make people take the drugs. Are they any more responsible for the deaths than say Remington or S&W?

they marketed it to doctors as safe and significantly less if not completely free of addiction, then suppressed their own information gathered from their sales reps in the first year that it indeed was addictive and being used as a rec. drug. So maybe not in jail but they along with the board have some liability.

 

[InVOLuntary]

IDK what the 2 have to do with each other?

Well if people that want to legalize drugs would they not want to hold the Mexican cartels liable as well?

 

[hog88]

Well if people that want to legalize drugs would they not want to hold the Mexican cartels liable as well?

I don’t believe the Mexican cartels are marketing their products as safe and non addictive.

 

[InVOLuntary]

I don’t believe the Mexican cartels are marketing their products as safe and non addictive.

Everyone has known forever that oxy is addictive. It's nothing new. Oxytocin is simply time released hydrocodone.

 

[hog88]

Everyone has known forever that oxy is addictive. It's nothing new. Oxytocin is simply time released hydrocodone.

I get that but Purdue lied about it's addictiveness. I don't see the Mexican cartels advertising that their products are non addictive.

 

[InVOLuntary]

I get that but Purdue lied about it's addictiveness. I don't see the Mexican cartels advertising that their products are non addictive.

Would the docs not be the one since they are the ones prescribing it? I just don't have much sympathy for things like this.