Purdue Pharma
Purdue and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market medications to meet the evolving needs of healthcare professionals, patients, and caregivers. Purdue and its subsidiaries focus on balancing innovative science with clinically effective, compassionate care. The Company’s goals are to serve patients who rely on its medicines, pursue public health initiatives intended to help abate the opioid crisis, advance its pipeline of branded and generic medications, and introduce medicines that will help save and improve lives.www.purduepharma.com
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Sep 23, 2026
Susie Singer CarterGUEST
It was Emmy award-winning.
Susie Singer CarterGUEST
And it was really following these two prosecutors who were going after the Purdue Pharma, who are the manufacturers of OxyContin, created the OxyContin crisis.
Susie Singer CarterGUEST
It was starring Michael Keaton, and Peter Sarsgaard plays the lead prosecutor, Rick Mountcastle.
Susie Singer CarterGUEST
In their final episode, they talk about their next case, and that was against another pharmaceutical called Abbott Labs, who were off marketing a drug called Depakote, which is a drug for epilepsy, anti-seizure drug, to basically chemically restrain residents in nursing homes so that they don't have to attend to them.
Clay EdwardsHOST
They brought it to the modern times on the Sackler family.
Clay EdwardsHOST
That was Purdue Pharma invented oxycodones.
Clay EdwardsHOST
So is it kind of
Zach ServiceGUEST
like a retelling or reimagining?
Clay EdwardsHOST
They brought it to the modern times on the Sackler family.
Clay EdwardsHOST
That was Purdue Pharma invented oxycodone.
Clay EdwardsHOST
So is it kind of
Zach ServiceGUEST
like a retelling or reimagining?
Clay EdwardsHOST
They brought it to the modern times on the Sackler family.
Clay EdwardsHOST
That was Purdue Pharma invented oxycodone.
Clay EdwardsHOST
So is it kind of
Zach ServiceGUEST
like a retelling or reimagining?
Trey CrowderHOST
Yeah.
Mark AgeeHOST
He said, "Amid a short blip in business that led some of the company to believe its promotional experiments weren't working as intended." So yeah, this is the next opioid epidemic, right? Um, and Donald Trump is essentially making a profit off AI infrastructure, and can you imagine the uproar if, like, Obama was a major shareholder in Purdue Pharma?
Trey CrowderHOST
Right.
Mark AgeeHOST
It's kind of the universe we live in here.
HannahHOST
And it's centered primarily on a... distressed mining town or distressed mining towns in general and fractured communities within central Appalachia and Virginia.
HannahHOST
And Macy traces the roots in the crisis directly to the 1996 release of OxyContin by Purdue Pharma.
HannahHOST
And she meticulously details how the corporation deployed very aggressive and very, very deceptive marketing strategies to manipulate the medical establishment into over-prescribing highly addictive narcotics.
HannahHOST
Hearing about what they did to influence the medical clinical community is fascinating.
HannahHOST
It was a hard read, but I really, really appreciated it.
HannahHOST
I messaged Tina a couple times while I was reading it, and I was like, well, Empire of Pain by Patrick Rodden Keefe is next because that is a piece of narrative nonfiction.
HannahHOST
that covers the Sackler family, which is the family that owns Purdue Pharma.
HannahHOST
And it really focuses on that piece of the puzzle.
Robby GallatyGUEST
My back torques, my neck locks up, and I herniate two discs in my neck, two discs in my back.
Robby GallatyGUEST
This is 1999, I'll frame it, on the front end of Purdue Pharma Oxycontin.
Robby GallatyGUEST
Back then, if you remember, they were like, Oxycontin's not addictive at all.
Robby GallatyGUEST
You could take it.
Susie Singer CarterGUEST
So they are allowed to figure out a way to legally give them these drugs.
Susie Singer CarterGUEST
But, you know, I mean, my partner, who is my co-founder of our nonprofit, we'll talk about, but also the documentary, is a former federal prosecutor who they did Dope Sick, the miniseries, based on his prosecution against OxyContin manufacturers, Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family.
Susie Singer CarterGUEST
But he also...
Susie Singer CarterGUEST
He also this is why how we got connected is because I honed this from the doc from the series that he also went up against Abbott Labs for off marketing Depakote.
RoryHOST
If you were to quantify the horror that was bestowed upon America and the world because of that...
Rob MorrisHOST
Yeah, I mean, the opiate crisis has a lot to do with Purdue Pharma and some unscrupulous doctors, but Would the opiate crisis have hit as hard as it was and been as devastating as it was without the hardcore economic collapse that everybody was going through? If you're losing your homes, falling into a haze of opiates becomes all the easier.
Rob MorrisHOST
And yeah, it is unquestionable that at this point that we are dealing with a situation where many things have gone awry.
Rob MorrisHOST
And the whole point of Donald Trump, quite explicitly, I think in some people's minds, is to distract from this.
Randall BockHOST
None of it began with OxyContin.
Randall BockHOST
Ask most people on the street what brought on the opioid epidemic, and they'll tell you, you know, Purdue Pharma, and they've gotten their information from Dope Sick and Painkiller.
Randall BockHOST
either from Netflix or Amazon or whatever.
Randall BockHOST
And the CDC's own chart of the three waves obligingly begins in 1999 as though the story started with a sales force from Purdue Pharma.
Randall BockHOST
Pull the camera back to 1960 and the neglected first wave, which I've covered in my methadone article on brownstone.
Randall BockHOST
We had solved this problem once.
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