Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Dec 2019
Drug company's affiliate 'cashing in' on opioid overdoses with new cure – subsidised by Australian Government
16 December 2019 - The gleaming white booth towered over the medical conference in Italy in October, advertising a new brand of antidote for opioid overdoses.
"Be prepared. Get naloxone. Save a life," the slogan on its walls said.
Some conference attendees were stunned when they saw the company logo: Mundipharma, the international affiliate of Purdue Pharma – the maker of the blockbuster opioid, OxyContin, widely blamed for unleashing the American overdose epidemic.
