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Purdue Pharma taps a Gilded Age history of pharmaceutical fraud

  • Written by Jonathan S. Jones, PhD Candidate in History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Classified advertisement for Leslie Keeley's Gold Cure.ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune, July 21, 1884

Newly unsealed documents from a lawsuit by the state of Massachusetts allege that Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin and other addictive opioids, actively sniffed out new, sinister ways to cash in on the opioid crisis.

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