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Every time you think you've heard the worst about the Sacklers and Oxycontin, something even more damning and toxic comes out. "In one email, Richard Sackler personally directed sales reps to push doctors to prescribe extremely high doses of opioids." washingtonpost.com/national/lawsu…
"Sacklers...constantly tried to persuade doctors and others to prescribe higher doses, especially the extremely profitable 80-milligram tablet; and continually returned to doctors who were vastly overprescribing OxyContin to encourage them to hand out more."
"From 2008 to 2016, the lawsuit claims, the Sackler family paid itself nearly $4.3 billion from the sales of its drugs."
Oh, and look at this, from the heart of that lucrative, epidemic-fueling period: Yale School of Medicine gushing over a gift from none other than Richard Sackler: "A family, and a transformative legacy." medicine.yale.edu/news/printarti…
“The Sackler family’s commitment to advancing science at Yale is impressive and inspiring,” said Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine. “Richard Sackler has been a steadfast friend of the medical school.”
Oh, and look who was advising the Sacklers on how to "turbocharge" their Oxycontin sales: McKinsey! nytimes.com/2019/02/01/bus…
"McKinsey’s consultants instructed Purdue Pharma on how to 'turbocharge' sales of OxyContin, how to counter efforts by drug enforcement agents to reduce opioid use and were part of a team that looked at how “to counter emotional messages from mothers w/ teenagers that overdosed."
"McKinsey recommended that Purdue redirect its sales force to focus on esp prolific prescribers of OxyContin. One slide attributed to McKinsey focused on one doctor in Wareham, Mass., who almost doubled his Oxy prescriptions after a big increase in visits from Purdue sales reps."
