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"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed"

Art as commodity versus art as protest

by Ellen Rolfes
Jun 24, 2023
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #155
Artist Nan Goldin lies on the ground in a "die-in" protest at a museum.
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"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed"

Where will the opioids settlement money go?

by Ellen Rolfes
Jun 16, 2023
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #154
Oxycodone pain pills prescribed for a patient with chronic pain are pictured.
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"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed"

Why the Sacklers are shielded from future opioids lawsuits

by Ellen Rolfes
Jun 10, 2023
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #153
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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to plead to 3 criminal charges

by Associated Press
Oct 21, 2020
The drugmaker will also pay a settlement of more than $8 billion, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
OxyContin is displayed at a drugstore in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Companies reach $260 million deal to settle opioids lawsuit

by Associated Press
Oct 21, 2019
The nation’s three dominant drug distributors and a big drugmaker have reached a $260 million deal to settle an opioid crisis lawsuit just as the first federal trial over the crisis was due to begin.
Pill Man, a skeleton made from Frank Huntley's oxycontin and methadone prescription bottles, is seen on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House August 30, 2019, in Washington, DC.
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Would a $10 billion Purdue settlement reach towns affected by the opioid crisis?

by Kai Ryssdal and Caitlin Esch
Aug 28, 2019
A proposed settlement would reportedly see the OxyContin maker declaring bankruptcy and paying big. Is that enough for people on the ground?
A homemade sign says "Think drugs gets you high give God a try," on a front lawn in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The town in Wise County has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic.
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The Uncertain Hour

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to stop marketing opioids to doctors

by Marketplace Staff and Associated Press
Feb 10, 2018
Purdue’s promotions exaggerated the drug’s safety and risks of addiction, leaning heavily on one sentence used by sales reps to market the drug to doctors.
The prescription medicine OxyContin is displayed Aug. 21, 2001 at a Walgreens drugstore.
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The Uncertain Hour

How one sentence helped set off the opioid crisis

by Caitlin Esch
Dec 13, 2017
Recently unsealed documents shed light on how the maker of OxyContin seems to have relied more on focus groups than on scientific studies to create an aggressive and misleading marketing campaign that helped fuel the national opioid epidemic.
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OxyContin's waiting game: Generic drug makers salivate while the FDA wants safer pills

by Dan Gorenstein
Apr 16, 2013
OxyContin is supposed to come off patent and generic drug makers are excited. But, the FDA may put a stop to it all to wait for safer pills.
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