Lawyer representing family that owns manufacturer of OxyContin defends his clients: 'The Sackler family deeply feels the sorrow and the pain that this opioid epidemic has inflicted on people...and they very much want to help.'
"The label for this product is key. The FDA approves OxyContin. It has approved OxyContin since 1996, has reviewed OxyContin no less than over 30 different times since that period of time and still believes and approves OxyContin is safe and effective today,” Bernick said.
New York's lawsuit, however, alleges the Sacklers intentionally blamed opioid users rather than "directing Purdue to address the risk its opioid products created." In February 2001, the suit said, then Purdue board co-chair Richard Sackler authored a strategy to "blame and stigmatize their own victims."
According to the suit, Richard Sackler wrote in an email: “We have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible. They are the culprits and the problem. They are reckless criminals.”"At the very same time these emails were written, this company was leaping forward with multiple, multiple voluntary steps. So if you take a look at the emails, you say, 'Woah, they paint a bad image.' The problem is they're taken out of context," Bernick said.
Editor’s note: In the early 1950s, brothers Mortimer, Raymond and Arthur bought a small pharmaceutical company, Purdue Frederick. Arthur passed away in 1987. According to the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler purchased Arthur’s share in the company a few months after his death. The company became Purdue Pharma LLP in 1991 and received FDA approval for OxyContin four years later.
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