purdue pharma

Just watched the fictional TV-show 'Dopesick' and the HBO-documentary 'The Crime of the Century'. Both are about the opioid crisis in the US. They tell the story of how in the 1990s a pharmaceutical company 'Purdue Pharma' started marketing their opoid painkiller OxyContin to regular pain...

Origins of an Epidemic: Purdue Pharma Knew Its Opioids Were Widely Abused My cousin's wife, who beat alcoholism and drug addiction, was put on OxyContin for her chronic back pain. She explained to them her history and they said she would not become addicted to it as it was formulated...