Sacklers deny responsibility for opioid crisis and claim lawyers 'invented false narrative' [View all]

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The Sackler’s are monsters.

They’re mad because they’re being “cancelled”.

If you create an opioid epidemic due to illegally marketing and selling Oxycontin which has killed some 750,000 Americans you deserve to be cancelled.

Sacklers deny responsibility for opioid crisis and claim lawyers ‘invented false narrative’
A branch of the family launches website and claims they are victims of smear campaign by lawyers seeking to make profit
theguardian.com
10:15 AM · Jun 1, 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/01/sacklers-opioid-crisis-website

A branch of the Sackler family has launched a website denying responsibility for the US opioid epidemic even after agreeing to pay billions of dollars to settle lawsuits over the crisis.

The website, called Judge for Yourselves, claims that the family and the company it owns, Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma, are victims of a smear campaign by lawyers seeking to profit from a “strategically invented false narrative” that the firm’s high-strength prescription painkiller, OxyContin, drove an epidemic that has ultimately claimed more than 500,000 lives over the past two decades.

It says the Sackler family regrets that the drug “unexpectedly became part of the opioid crisis” but that those members who ran Purdue “acted lawfully and ethically”.

However, the site also downplays Purdue’s guilty pleas to federal crimes on two occasions, in 2007 and last year, over its huge marketing push to sell OxyContin to the masses, which included false claims that the drug was less addictive than other narcotic painkillers.

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