{"id":177115,"date":"2019-12-21T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/21\/not-enough-bullets-15\/"},"modified":"2019-12-21T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T00:51:00","slug":"not-enough-bullets-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/21\/not-enough-bullets-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/nRhWslw.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/nRhWslw.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Literally the Least Tufts Could Do<\/i><\/div>\n<p>The Sackler family, are <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2019\/12\/oxysacklers-angry-that-tufts-removed-family-name-from-campus\/\">having major butt-hurt because Tufts University is pulling their names from their buildings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, you created a dangerous product, aggressively and dishonestly marketed it across the nation, when caught you looted your company in advance of your bankruptcy, and your non-bankrupt foreign company is <b>STILL<\/b> trying to hook people on your poison.<\/p>\n<p>Why wouldn&#8217;t an institution best known for its medical program want to have anything with you?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Sackler family is pushing back after Tufts University removed the  family name from its buildings and programs due to the family\u2019s link to  the ongoing opioid epidemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/19\/us\/sackler-opioids-tufts.html\">according to a report in The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Tufts\u2019 president, a lawyer for the family wrote that the removal was \u201ccontrary to basic notions of fairness&#8221; and \u201ca breach of the many binding commitments made by the University dating back to 1980 in order to secure the family\u2019s support, including millions of dollars in donations for facilities and critical medical research.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Tufts made the decision to remove the family name after getting the results of an independent review of the university\u2019s relationship with the Sacklers and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2019\/12\/sacklers-siphoned-nearly-11-billion-from-purdue-amid-opioid-crisis\/\">OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma, which the Sacklers own<\/a>. Both the family and the company have been accused of helping to spark the crisis by aggressively marketing the powerful painkiller and misleading doctors, patients, and regulators about its addictiveness. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The review found that Purdue did intend to use the relationship to advance its interests. And, according to the report, in some cases, it was successful in influencing the academic institution. \u201cMoreover, we conclude that there was an appearance of too close a relationship between Purdue, the Sacklers, and Tufts,\u201d the report said. <\/p>\n<p>The letter from the Sackler family lawyer hinted at the possibility of legal action. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Although, not all of the Sackler family is involved with OxyContin. Of the original three Sackler brothers involved in Purdue, one of them\u2014Arthur\u2014died before the painkiller was introduced, and his brothers bought out his stake in the company. Arthur\u2019s widow, Jillian Sackler, released a statement saying in part, \u201cIt deeply saddens me to witness Arthur being blamed for actions taken by his brothers and other OxySacklers.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OxySacklers.&nbsp; Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literally the Least Tufts Could Do The Sackler family, are having major butt-hurt because Tufts University is pulling their names from their buildings. Let&#8217;s see, you created a dangerous product, aggressively and dishonestly marketed it across the nation, when caught you looted your company in advance of your bankruptcy, and your non-bankrupt foreign company is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[544,599,368,517,364,463,567,460,486],"class_list":["post-177115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-academe","tag-charity","tag-corruption","tag-drugs","tag-evil","tag-healthcare","tag-pharma","tag-public-health","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}