In Newly Released Deposition, OxyContin Owner Defends Response to Reports of Abuse

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In Newly Released Deposition, OxyContin Owner Defends Response to Reports of Abuse
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The March deposition offers a rare window into Richard Sackler’s current views on the opioid epidemic and the line he draws between what he calls real patients and addicts

Richard Sackler, an owner of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP, received an email from a friend in 2002 detailing what the friend called some “items of interest.”

The friend, an anesthesiologist, mentioned that his local pharmacy had spent $12,000 on remodeling to increase security because of OxyContin, the powerful opioid painkiller. The friend recounted that he had recently spoken to a student at an exclusive private high school who said someone had tried to sell her the “designer drug” OxyContin in the campus halls.

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