Opinion: The OxyContin catastrophe highlights a big failure in policy
basically intact, premised on the theory that patients ultimately benefit from a free flow of information between those who make medications and those who prescribe them.
It’s presumed that doctors are experts, not easily swayed like ordinary consumers, though one lesson of the OxyContin disaster, which has done the most, is that small-town and rural practitioners often lack the time and independent knowledge to challenge company claims. And it is the rare doctor indeed whose professional ethos, however deeply felt, could ever match Richard Sackler’s zeal, reinforced by the profit motive, to turn his opioid into a blockbuster drug.introduced during the 2015 Kentucky deposition, Sackler crowed over the rapid initial sales of OxyContin: “Clearly this strategy has outperformed our expectations, market research and fondest dreams.”
In a 1999 email to a Purdue executive, Sackler wrote: “You won’t believe how committed I am to make OxyContin a huge success. It is almost that I dedicated my life to it.”
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