“OPIATES killed ten times as many Americans in one year as all terror attacks in last 20 years.” Unintentional drug overdose is now the primary cause of accidental deaths in the United States, Claire Bernish reports.

Read about how Oxycontin, the painkiller blamed for many cases of opiate addiction, was marketed to the medical establishment by Purdue Pharma:

Between 1996 and 2003, Purdue increased its sales force from 618 to 1,067. Targeting the physicians who (depending on who you talk to) either should have known better or never stood a chance, Purdue’s sales reps were unleashed, telling doctors across the country how safe OxyContin was to prescribe for non-cancer pain.

OxyContin, claimed Purdue’s sales force, had less than 1 percent chance of addiction.

OxyContin, they claimed, didn’t produce a high when taken.

OxyContin users, they assured doctors, were in no danger of building up a tolerance to the drug, a sure sign of physical addiction.

All lies, and Purdue knew they were lies. Each one resoundingly disproven, but far too late.

According to Forbes, the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma, generated sales of $35 billion of the drug between 1995 and 2015.

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