Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Purdue Pharma knew about opioid addiction....?
This article was recently posted on the NY Times about the origins of the opioid epidemic. Meier outlines that early on Purdue Pharma executives knew that Oxy was being crushed, snorted and ultimately abused. However, they continued to push the drug as less addictive than substitutes.
Since we have recently been discussing consequences for executives who wrongfully acted, what type of punishment (if any) should be handed out to the Purdue Pharma executives?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/health/purdue-opioids-oxycontin.html
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I feel like with any pharmaceutical drug there will be individuals who will abuse the drug in these such matters. I think this fact is obvious to anyone and therefore apparent to big Pharma companies like Purdue. As far as punishment goes I think that because Oxycontin has played such a major role in the opioid epidemic and they might be 'too big' to fail that they might need a more unique punishment. Such as special training or company value realignment to ensure that their powerful products don't get abused. Potentially shut down for some amount of time to learn from their mistakes.
ReplyDeleteI saw this trending topic on twitter yesterday too, and I found it surprising that this only became news yesterday since Purdue had been prosecuted over 10 years ago already for miss-branding Oxy...so I'm not sure why this is new.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what Todd said in that there will always be some people that abuse a drug. While Purdue Pharma knew that Oxycontin was being abuse, I feel as if they were not held accountable enough in the first place. If anything, there should be some sort of standard regulations placed on pharmaceuticals that are enforced strongly.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I also wish they would to fix their company image.
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