Tag: Drugs

Purdue Pharma bought more than $18 million worth of advertising in major medical journals that cheerily touted OxyContin, and in some ads “grossly overstated” the drug’s safety.

For the first 24 years of his life, Chris Rickerson's future looked dim. He grew up in poverty, with a drug-addicted mother and drug demons of his own.

There has been a successful campaign which completely changed the face of the heroin addict from poor, minority and male, to middle-class and white, male or female.