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Purdue payments to Sackler family surged after OxyContin fine

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Purdue payments to Sackler family surged after OxyContin fine | Society | The Guardian

Family started taking far more money out of firm after it was fined for misleading marketing of drug

The wealthy owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma started taking far more money out of the company after it was fined for misleading marketing of the powerful prescription painkiller.

Purdue made payments for the benefit of members of the Sackler family totalling $10.7bn (£8bn) from 2008 through to 2017, a court filing made by the company on Monday evening shows.
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Wanna get filthy rich? Come up with a drug a) that makes you feel really good & b)makes you ultra wealthy. Then hire people called 'detail people' to push the stuff on doctors. Or have it made for you in China. The only thing you have to lose is the number of people you kill with this product.
 
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