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Ryan Hampton | The Opioid Crisis, The Sackler Family, & The Purdue Pharma Case
FDA Corruption, Dr. Curtis Wright, and the 1% Addiction Lie
In the late 1990s, FDA officer Dr. Curtis Wright allegedly allowed Purdue Pharma to write its own drug approval recommendation for OxyContin before leaving the agency for a $400,000 job at the company. Purdue marketed the drug as having less than a 1% addiction rate based on a "delayed absorption" claim. The company also coined the term "pseudo-addiction" to convince doctors that patients showing signs of addiction actually just needed higher doses of opioids.