Watching are to International Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 4 pm welcome to the program. We start in the u. S. Where leaks documents reveal the extent of lobbying by drug maker Purdue Pharma to market its a widely prescribed painkiller and downplayed the risks the drug has been blamed as a major factor and americas Opioid Epidemic the revelations were made by the investigative media outlet pro publica they include allegations that purdue hired sympathetic experts to appear and leaving the outlets for do funded think tanks are also accused of writing misleading articles while negative coverage was often challenge by medical analysts with alleged ties to the drug maker with more here is killed off them. Purdue pharma the corporation that created oxy cotton is generally blamed for the crisis due to their efforts to reorient the medical community and change the narrative regarding the dangers of addiction lets go over a specific example of how they went
Thanks for joining us this hour. We start in the u. S. Where leaked documents reveal the extensive lobbying by drug maker Purdue Pharma to market its widely prescribed painkillers and downplayed the risks the drug has been blamed as a major factor in americas Opioid Epidemic relations were made by the investigative media outlet pro publica they include allegations that purdue hired sympathetic experts to appear at leading Media Outlets produce funded think tanks are also accused of writing misleading articles wont make it if coverage was often challenge by medical analysts with alleged ties to the drug maker its more here. Purdue pharma the corporation that created oxy cotton is generally blamed for the crisis due to their efforts to reorient the medical community and change the narrative regarding the dangers of addiction lets go over a specific example of how they went about doing this in 2004 the New York Times ran an article containing this wildly misleading statement regarding the
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