August 2023
Intermediate to advanced
818 pages
28h 27m
English
It is claimed by the families of victims of OxyContin, a highly addictive opioid drug manufactured by Purdue Pharma, that the drug has claimed the lives of 400,000 Americans since 1999. The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention has calculated 500,000 opioid overdose deaths in the last two decades (Knauth and Hals 2022). (To put this into perspective 400,000 is approximately the number of US combat deaths in World War II.) How such a devastating tragedy could occur in American society is hard to believe. This was a medium sized family-owned US pharmaceutical company, and its victims were largely middle-class Americans who believed they were taking pain killers and had ...
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