Sackler family accused of ‘corrupting’ World Health Organization to boost opioid sales

Evil Genius – 

May 22, 2019 – “The WHO appears to be lending the opioid industry its voice and credibility, and as a result, a trusted public health organization is trafficking dangerous misinformation that could lead to a global opioid epidemic.”Clark and Rogers plan to deliver their report to the WHO on Wednesday morning after the organization failed to respond to a letter from a dozen members of Congress two years ago warning that Purdue and Mundipharma International, a UK-based network of global companies owned by members of the Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, were pushing to boost opioid sales globally. The 2017 letter cautioned the WHO to learn the lessons of the US opioid epidemic, which has claimed more than 400,000 lives over the past two decades.

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