Draft:Purdue Pharma's ways of Manipulation

Purdue Pharma is owned by the Sakler family. Purdue Pharma had a successful strategy to convince doctors that Oxycontin should be marketed repeatedly as a longer-term pain relief for patients with Osteoarthritis. Over 500,000 Americans have died from an overdoes from opioids. The amount of overdoes deaths in 2021 have multiplied six times the amount in 1999. Of those deaths, over 75% were caused by opioids. The Sakler's company also coached their pharmaceutical representatives throughout the country to inform physicians that the drug they were pushing,Oxycontin, was not addictive and that only people who were already addicts would become addicted. Sales representatives misinformed the doctors and physicians they talked to along with the general public, that the addiction rate of Oxycontin was less than one percent. They manipulated these statistics in brochures that they handed out to doctors. This drug was created for long term pain such as cancer but showed large addictive side effects. It did not take long before a large population of people who were not in long term pain were taking this drug recreationaly.