How Oxycontin got approved

[Phil C. McNasty]

Filmmaker Peter Berg claims only one FDA person in the end approved Oxycontin, and subsequently got a cushy $400K a year job at Purdue Pharma.

In case you didnt know hundreds of thousands of people died of overdoses from this drug

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[hockeyguy19]

Read "Empire of Pain". Great book documenting the rise of Purdue Pharma and the corruption surrounding the approval of oxycontin.

Apple + has a great series with Michael Keaton based on the book as well. Can't remember name of it at this moment but it was great.

I became obsessed with story of Purdue Pharma and oxycontin and the Sackler family. There's a lot of stuff out there on these and it is all very interesting.

 

[basketcase]

Very useful drug under proper usage. Pharma and their doctors prescribing it for everything imaginable was the problem.