Designer drugs will become increasingly potent and prevalent. Earlier this year, the Guggenheim was the site of a protest led by artist Nan Goldin, wherein people released false prescription papers throughout the middle of the iconic building, protesting the acceptance of donations from the Sacklers. Register here, Subscribe to the Techdirt Daily newsletter. “The court sees no higher value than the public (via the media) having access to these discovery materials so that the public can see the facts for themselves,” Pike Circuit Court Judge Steven Combs ruled in May 2016. He even predicted that the introduction of OxyContin would produce “a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition”. As a matter of fact, mushrooms have been employed successfully in combating addiction to other substances. STAT filed a motion in 2016 asking the judge in that case to make the documents public, and he ordered the unsealing of those documents, including the Sackler deposition. I'm getting Video Unavailable but that isn't regular for me. Thank you. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We’re only now beginning to understand how involved the Sackler family is in this affair. The main story on this past weekend's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver tackled this issue in relation to Richard Sackler, the former chairman and president of Purdue Pharma, the company that developed and promoted Oxycontin. The program was highly successful at easing participants’ emotional suffering. McKesson, one of the largest distributors, lamely tried to implement a monitoring program after the state of things in West Virginia was revealed to the wider public. Not my nation's treasure, I know, but a treasure none the less. Michelle Borth on that Shazam surprise ending and playing Mary Bromfield, Game of Thrones season 8: Questions that were answered in the premiere, Discover the most popular show the year you were born, Discover the most popular movie the year you were born. CDC expands definition of ‘close contacts,’ after study suggests…, CDC expands definition of ‘close contacts,’ after study suggests Covid-19 can be passed in brief interactions, Amid pandemic, U.S. has seen 300,000 ‘excess deaths,’ with…, Amid pandemic, U.S. has seen 300,000 ‘excess deaths,’ with highest rates among people of color, The Road Ahead: Charting the coronavirus pandemic over the…, The Road Ahead: Charting the coronavirus pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond, Purdue will plead guilty to federal charges, reaches $8.3…, Purdue will plead guilty to federal charges, reaches $8.3 billion deal over opioid crisis, Covid-19’s wintry mix: As we move indoors, dry air…, Covid-19’s wintry mix: As we move indoors, dry air will help the coronavirus spread, Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine, Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,”, Purdue’s Sackler embraced plan to conceal OxyContin’s strength from doctors, sealed deposition shows, ‘A blizzard of prescriptions’: Documents reveal new details about Purdue’s marketing of OxyContin, STAT+ Conversations: Beyond real-world data and Covid-19, U.K. to infect healthy volunteers in Covid-19 vaccine research trial. They say journalists don’t add context, for one. More so than abuse the drug. What else should you expect when you ask the drug company to monitor itself? ', and admitting that said company hadn't put any effort into checking addiction rates from their aggressively pushed drug leaves them looking beyond scummy and sociopathic. That’s a lot for Michael Keaton to recite, as good as his performance may be. If OxyContin had been marketed in good faith for only those with acute and very specific conditions, the sales would have been a fraction of what Purdue achieved. Clean the garage. There are better things to worry about…. There are very few pictures of him even online and no real videos they could find. Keaton is genuinely menacing here, not least because Sackler’s words are utterly chilling. ", But https://www.sacklergallery.com/ and the embedded Vimeo clips work just fine :D. Works fine for me; must have been a glitch. Frankly, he’s really good. If you take away the drugs they will eat mushrooms.

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