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Richard Stephen Sackler (born March 10, 1945) [1] is an American businessman and physician who was the chairman and president of Purdue Pharma, a former company best known as the developer of OxyContin, whose role in the opioid epidemic in the United States became the subject of many lawsuits and fines, filing for bankruptcy in 2019.
The Sackler family is an American family who owned the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma and later founded Mundipharma. [1] Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin .
What happened to Richard Sackler? Richard stepped down from his role as president of Purdue in 2003, but remained on the company's board. He has since distanced himself from the company and its ...
Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma have been cast as prime villains in the U.S. opioid epidemic. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a deal for the company to ...
Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy plan was initially approved by a New York bankruptcy court and 95 per cent of the victims. However, most of the claimants who were entitled to vote or had personal ...
Massachusetts v. Purdue is a lawsuit filed on August 14, 2018, suing the Stamford, Connecticut-based company Purdue Pharma LP, which created and manufactures OxyContin, "one of the most widely used and prescribed opioid drugs on the market", and Purdue's owners, the Sacklers [1] accusing them of "widespread fraud and deception in the marketing of opioids, and contributing to the opioid crisis ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits ...
Gorsuch highlighted in the court's opinion Purdue's central role in the US opioid crisis that contributed to the deaths of approximately 247,000 people between 1999 and 2019.