As Cops Throw People in Cages for Weed, the Makers of Deadly OxyContin Join the Ruling Class

By Jay Syrmopoulos These Drug Dealers Killed More People in the Last Decade than the Mexican Cartels

There is a dubious new addition to the Forbes 2015 America’s Richest Families list. The Sackler family, which owns 100 percent of Purdue Pharma, amassed the 16th largest family fortune in the U.S., estimated to be worth $14 billion dollars.
What makes this distinction dubious is the fact that the Sackler’s built their fortune by peddling the highly addictive, and often deadly, opiate painkiller OxyContin as a supposedly non-addictive version of oxycodone, labeling it as “abuse resistant.”
Purdue Pharma has generated estimated sales of over $35 billion dollars …read more

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