The Sacklers of OxyContin infamy have become indelibly tied to the opioid crisis in America. But the truth is they were far from the only contributors to a drug epidemic that has claimed hundreds o…
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“In 2009 I went down to Florida to report on the pill mills. One pain clinic had a reputation above all the others as being the biggest, the most liberal dispensers of oxycodone. And that was [the George Brothers’] American Pain,” Foster tells Deadline. “So, I knew I had to go there and film it.
“What happened is that Purdue Pharma [the Sacklers’ company] lost their patent on Oxycontin and it allowed all these generic companies to come in and make the same drug at a much cheaper price. That was the opportunity the George Brothers took advantage of,” Foster observes. “People who wanted to abuse these drugs were out there already because of OxyContin. They could actually get it at a much more affordable price because they were generics now.
There was another key participant in this scenario – the drug companies that manufactured the painkillers.
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