OxyContin billionaire patents new drug for opioid treatment

Posted on 10/09/2018

It’s like the villain in movies who poisons a population then profits with an antidote… After creating billions of dollars by selling patented addictive opioids, the Sackler family is poised to make more millions selling an innovative form of buprenorphine, a mild opiate that reduces cravings for harder opioids like its OxyContin.