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Billionaire OxyContin Pushers Granted Immunity; Half a Million People Still Dead
Members of the billionaire Sackler family, long accused of misleading the public about the addictiveness of the OxyContin sold by their privately owned pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, were granted sweeping immunity from civil lawsuits by a federal judge on Wednesday.
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Opioid Maker Purdue Promises Not To Profit From Its New Overdose Antidote
One of the major instigators to the opioid crisis is looking to sell its own drug to save people from deadly overdoses — but the company swears it won’t be pocketing the profits.