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   Carolyn Barber, MD (cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 03:31:59 JST Carolyn Barber, MD

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   anything close to all their assets on the table.” https://tinyurl.com/mry9d33m #press #oxycontin #addiction #opioid

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     Carolyn Barber, MD (cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 03:32:00 JST Carolyn Barber, MD

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     looser prescribing regulations. Mr. Sackler urged doctors to prescribe the highest dosages of Oxycontin because it brought in more 💵 . Several hundred thousand people have died from opioid overdoses while the Sacklers made billions.

     Gorsuch wrote, today, “The Sacklers seek greater relief than a bankruptcy discharge normally affords, for they hope to extinguish even claims for wrongful death and fraud, and they seek to do so without putting 2/3

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     Carolyn Barber, MD (cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 03:32:01 JST Carolyn Barber, MD

     #SCOTUS today tossed out a controversial bankruptcy $8B deal involving Purdue Pharma, maker of the highly addictive painkiller Oxycontin. In exchange for providing compensation to victims of the opioid crisis and state and local govts, the Sacklers (owners of Purdue) would have been shielded from all future liability,

     Recall that Purdue aggressively marketed OxyContin as having a very low addiction risk(<1%), targeted & awarded high-prescribing docs lucrative bonuses & lobbied hard for 1/

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