Comment
Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
To stay with" when hot liquid was poured into it. Stat also notes that Purdue and other drug manufacturers voluntarily agreed to cease this type of promotional swag advertising after the marketing tactics were criticized in a 2003 US Government Accountability Office report. In February 2018, Purdue announced it would stop promoting opioids to doctors. Curtis Wright did leave the Food and Drug Administration after the FDA approved OxyContin, and later took a job at Purdue. Matthew Broderick (center) as Richard Sackler on Netflix's "Painkiller." Keri Anderson/Netflix In "Painkiller," Purdue Pharma and Richard Sackler (played by Matthew Broderick) take great interest in Wright after he oversees Oxycontin's FDA application. Wright is initially wary of the drug but eventually signs off, saying that the drug's "delayed absorption, as provided by OxyContin tablets, is believed to reduce the abuse liability of the drug."OxyContin was first approved in December 1995, according to the FDA's website.According to a 2006 Department of Justice memo proposing an indictment of several key Purdue Pharma executives, Wright advised Purdue Pharma on how to accelerate the approval of Oxycontin while under the employ of the FDA. A year after Wright left the FDA, he took a job at Purdue Pharma with a compensation package of "at least $379,000," according to the DOJ. The OxyContin cheerleaders seen at a Purdue gala were likely a dramatized part of the story. Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler on Netflix's "Painkiller." Keri Anderson/Netflix While it's clear that OxyContin brought in millions of dollars of revenue for Purdue Pharma, the goings-on at the company's parties and sales conferences haven't been widely reported on. It is possible, of course, that Purdue could have hired "OxyContin cheerleaders" for its major events, but the dancers depicted on the show seem more likely to be a metaphor for the corporation's reported greed and excessive spending. It may also be a reference to a comment former Sen. Claire McCaskill made in 2018, after releasing the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's report on how the country's largest opioid manufacturers, including Purdue Pharma, gave money to patient advocacy groups and professional medical societies."I think these groups were cheerleaders … cheerleaders too often for opioids," McCaskill said while releasing the results of the probe, according to The Guardian. One of Howard Udell's secretaries was addicted to OxyContin. Brian Markinson as Howard Udell on Netflix's "Painkiller." Keri Anderson/Netflix Udell, who died in 2013, was Purdue Pharma's general counsel for more than three decades, according to ABC News.In his book, Keefe reported that Udell's secretary of over 20 years (referred to by the pseudonym Martha West in Keefe's book) said in court testimony that she "became addicted to OxyContin" while working at Purdue. Before West became addicted, according to Keefe's book, Udell had asked her in 1999 to do online research into the abuse of the drug for an internal memo and also referred her to a pain specialist, who prescribed West OxyContin for back pain.According to Keefe, West, a recovering alcoholic, was
Add Comment