By John Vibes The Sacklers, the notorious family that owns Purdue Pharma, the company responsible for the controversial opiate OxyContin, is accused of transferring $1 billion to offshore accounts, in an attempt to hide their wealth, amid a flurry of lawsuits related to the drug….
By David Armstrong As OxyContin addiction spurred a national nightmare, a member of the family that has reaped billions of dollars from the painkiller boasted that sales exceeded his “fondest dreams,” according to a secret court document obtained by ProPublica. This story is a collaboration…
By David Armstrong Secret portions of a lawsuit allege that Purdue Pharma, controlled by the Sackler family, considered capitalizing on the addiction treatment boom — while going to extreme lengths to boost sales of its controversial opioid. This story was co-published with STAT. Not content…
