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Sackler family behind OxyContin busted trying to hide $1bn as lawsuits over opioid crisis pile up


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2019 Sep 16, 9:00pm   4,572 views  57 comments

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https://www.rt.com/usa/468793-sackler-hiding-money-opioids-lawsuit/

New York’s attorney general has uncovered over $1 billion in wire transfers by the Sackler family and accused the OxyContin magnates of trying to shield their wealth from mounting lawsuits over their role in the opioid crisis.
The prodigious stash was discovered in the records of just one of the 33 financial institutions Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed last month in an effort to trace the extent of the Purdue Pharma owners’ wealth, James’ office said in a statement on Friday. The money passed through several Swiss bank accounts, indicating the family may have tried to hide profits from the sale of drugs that have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans over the past two decades as their legal troubles began to pile up.

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53   Eric Holder   2023 Jan 9, 10:39am  

Tenpoundbass says

The legalization of pot, has not allowed anyone in any state to grow their own pot


You can grow up to 12 plants for your own consumption in CA, iirc.
54   richwicks   2023 Jan 9, 12:46pm  

Ceffer says

There is likely some kind of liability, but it would require intricate forensic examination rather than wholesale demonization based on the deaths of end users. People will always seek these drugs and routinely die from them.


Let me explain the scam that the Sackler's pulled.

Oxycotin was said to have "long lasting effects", and it's big advantage, supposedly, was that 1 pill is all you needed for 12 hours. If that didn't alleviate the patient's pain, the recommendation was for the doctor to increase the dosage.

Opiates are very effective at reducing pain - but having a massive dose can create a euphoria. What should have been done is that instead of increasing the dose, the dose should have been more frequent but the recommendation, traced back to the Sackler's was to increase the dose but not the frequency. It's THIS that caused addiction. Patients would have been FAR less likely to become addicts if they more frequently took Oxycontin, and kept the overall daily dosage the same, or even reduce it.

The Sackler's lied about Oxycontin's addictiveness to give it a competitive advantage over other concoctions, and simultaneously purposely recommended doses to be large and infrequent to increase the likelihood they would have patients for life.

This resulted in many deaths, destroyed families, of course addition. I think the Sackler's should be made destitute and imprisoned. What they did was absolutely criminal. Even if it was just negligence, it was criminal negligence.
55   Patrick   2023 Jan 9, 12:59pm  

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/the-final-tally-of-purdue-pharmas


The Final Tally of Purdue Pharma's Crime Will Be Dwarfed By What Is Now In the Making
What caused the young reporter to collapse on live TV?
56   Tenpoundbass   2023 Jan 9, 1:17pm  

Eric Holder says

You can grow up to 12 plants for your own consumption in CA, iirc.


I believe the FDA and the DEA will come down on you. You can only grow if you're a licensed grower.
57   WookieMan   2023 Jan 9, 2:03pm  

Tenpoundbass says

I believe the FDA and the DEA will come down on you. You can only grow if you're a licensed grower.

They won't. How can they? They don't have the resources. Just don't have a Karen as a neighbor. This is why rural living is the way to go.

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