Category: painkillers

December 17, 2020 Off

Sackler Family Members Still Aren’t Taking Responsibility for the OxyContin Crisis

Members of the Sackler family continued to deny any personal responsibility for the opioid crisis in a congressional hearing Thursday…

October 19, 2020 Off

By Julian Morgans

It was May 2003 and farmers Bruce and Kathryn Goss had just won a new Jaguar X-Type. For about a…

January 30, 2019 Off

By VICE Staff

The pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma began selling OxyContin in 1996. By 2001, it was already clear that addiction and overdoses…