Cindy KoontzMartinsburg, WV, United States
Oct 10, 2018

The story reads approximately 500 people came out to protest. In case you don't know, "The Sackler family founded Purdue Pharma, whose aggressive marketing of OxyContin for non-cancer pain in the late 1990s and early 2000s is blamed for helping create the opioid epidemic. Purdue created OxyContin in 1996 and helped pay for a study by the Federation of State Medical Boards encouraging doctors and state medical boards to prescribe it. In 2007, three Purdue executives pleaded guilty in federal court in Abingdon to misbranding OxyContin as less addictive and less subject to abuse than other painkillers. They paid a $634.5 million fine. That’s about 2 percent of the approximately $35 billion in profits Purdue Pharma made on OxyContin."

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