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Purdue Pharma vai pagar milhares de milhões pela crise dos opióides

By Ninian Carter

January 24, 2025 - A Purdue Pharma, e a família Sackler que a controla, vão ter de pagar $7.400 milhões por terem promovido o OxyContin como analgésico seguro, apesar de saberem que era altamente viciante.

Purdue Pharma, and the Sackler family who controlled it, have agreed to pay out $7.4 billion for their instrumental role in the deadly U.S. “Opioid Crisis” that’s killed more than half-a-million Americans since 1999 – the largest settlement to date with individuals responsible for the crisis.

The Sacklers promoted their prescription painkiller, OxyContin, as safe despite knowing it was both highly addictive and widely abused, often becoming an entryway to harder drugs such as heroin.

The Sacklers have been blamed for worsening the crisis while lining their pockets with billions of dollars in profits.

The office of Letitia James, the New York Attorney General, says the agreement, which still needs final court approval, will be used to fund opioid addiction and prevention programmes across the country.

Since 1999, a few years after OxyContin became available, deaths from opioid overdoses in the U.S. have surged to tens of thousands every year.

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PUBLISHED: 24/01/2025; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Newscom
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