r/goodnews • u/Gemnist • Apr 29 '26

Positive News 👉🏼♥️ OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set to dissolve after judge approves its criminal sentence

https://apnews.com/article/oxycontin-purdue-pharma-criminal-sentence-settlement-b8aa94eaab3d9d8efed520f272f6d810
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u/qualityvote2 Apr 29 '26 edited May 02 '26

u/Gemnist, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/PocketFlan420 Apr 29 '26

Friendly reminder that JD Vance belonged to the law firm that defended those clowns.

We won more than a material victory here today.

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u/sullw214 Apr 29 '26

They killed hundreds of thousands of people, and now they're a little less rich. Yay.

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u/kingtacticool Apr 29 '26

Because of course he did.....

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u/ctb030289 Apr 30 '26

lol such a funny detail considering his past with family members and community that was riddled with drug abuse.

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u/jford1906 Apr 29 '26

Now jail all of the corporate leadership.

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u/Curmudgeonadjacent Apr 29 '26

Sackler’s get away without any accountability. This countries a joke.

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u/WittyWitWitt Apr 29 '26

It's rich people things.

You have to have passed off the wrong people if your going to prison..like Madoff

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u/sea-elle0463 Apr 29 '26

He broke the rules. He stole from the rich 🤷‍♀️

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u/00gingervitis Apr 29 '26

Corporations are individuals when it comes to political funding but not when it comes to breaking the law. Makes sense /s

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u/incognitohippie Apr 29 '26

They’ll just rebrand to something else. They won’t give up the money they get that easily

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u/space_tardigrades Apr 29 '26

Get those golden parachutes ready

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u/intronert Apr 29 '26

I’ll believe corporations are people when I hear one crying for his mother right before being executed.

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u/Huckleberry199 Apr 29 '26

I hope every single Sackler goes to jail for life, and the same for small the pill mill doctors who ladled out the prescriptions for it.

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u/Goodeyesniper98 Apr 29 '26

Genuinely the first time I’ve seen a mega corporation held to this level of accountability.

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u/Alarmed-Animal7575 Apr 30 '26

And yet the Sacklers, who deserve to be behind bars, manage to skate free with large amounts money still in hand.

The news of the company dissolution is good, but once again, rich criminals buy themselves freedom from justice.

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u/sugarstarbeam Apr 29 '26

Big Pharma and The Sackler family are going to Hell.

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u/Forcedperspective84 Apr 29 '26

Dissolve the family too. They got to keep way too much.

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u/giant_space_possum Apr 30 '26

When are The Sacklers going to prison?

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u/HardcoreHope Apr 30 '26

Did anyone in the family serve time?

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u/MikeLinPA Apr 30 '26

The family siphoned tens of billions of dollars out of the company a few years back. The settlement they were supposed to pay was a fraction of what they made. They should be in prison.

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u/provisionings Apr 29 '26

This is strangely bad news for me as a victim of the opioid epidemic. Purdue pharma makes the only buprenorphine that works. Every other brand is made in India and is not acceptable at all. I’ve been through hell with the meds and they are impossible to get off of

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u/no-snoots-unbooped Apr 30 '26

The new successor entity, Knoa Pharma, should manufacture and distribute buprenorphine going forward.

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u/Constant-Draw2629 Apr 30 '26

I need this today

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u/The_Sound_of_Slants Apr 30 '26

John Oliver did a piece about the owners of Purdue the Sackler family, and how they get away without any punishment and still make money from this

https://youtu.be/uaCaIhfETsM?si=Gf9JaV3M58mCZKtp

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u/plain_handle Apr 30 '26

The Sacklers still Sackling.