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Family With OxyContin Patent Has Another...To Wean Patients Off OxyContin
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14 minutes
Released:
Sep 11, 2018
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The Sackler family has made billions of dollars off of OxyContin, a prescription pain-management drug. Recently it's been cited when talking about America's opioid crisis. Now there's a patent out for an opioid-addiction treatment drug. The inventor? Richard Sackler...What responsibilities do private companies have in fixing problems they effectively helped cause?Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to our podcast. Have questions? Find us on Twitter @1a.
Released:
Sep 11, 2018
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Podcast episode
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