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Sacklers Hope to Pay $7 Billion to Bury Their Opioid Legacy

Purdue prepares to pay up, leaving unanswered questions about justice, accountability and how hundreds of thousands of lives might have been saved if regulators had acted sooner.

MENTAL HEALTH

“Chemically Castrated” After Antidepressants: The Permanent Damage of PSSD

Six years after doctors petitioned for Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction label warnings, the FDA has done nothing. Now, victims are speaking out—before more lives are destroyed.

MENTAL HEALTH

FDA Tries to Slam Shut the Revolving Door—After Decades of Industry Capture

From cozy relationships to blockbuster approvals, a new FDA policy promises transparency after decades of industry entanglement. But is it too little, too late?

MENTAL HEALTH

Pfizer-Exec-Turned-FDA-Exec Patrizia Cavazzoni Turns Pfizer Exec Again 

As an FDA executive, Cavazzoni handed Pfizer, her former employer, a record-setting number of approved drugs in one year. And now she’s back. There’s a reason they call it the “revolving door.”

DRUGS

American Lab Rats—New Study Shows Big Pharma Weight-Loss Drugs Cause Blindness

Six percent of Americans have used Ozempic, Wegovy and similar drugs. They’re unwitting experimental subjects.

MENTAL HEALTH

University Study Will Dose Up Adolescents With Unapproved Ketamine 

The study is part of psychiatry’s broad new initiative to normalize the use of hallucinogenic drugs, despite their dangerous side effects. Why? As always, follow the money.

DRUGS

McKinsey Consulting Agrees to Pay $650 Million for Role in Opioid Crisis

According to the DOJ, this is the first time a management consulting firm has been held criminally responsible for advice resulting in the commission of a crime by a client—in this case, Purdue.

MENTAL HEALTH

Big Pharma Seeking Ways to Bypass New Rules about Broadcast Drug Warnings in Ads

New FDA rules requiring clear warnings of dangerous side effects in drug ads is setting off alarms at drug companies: How do you legally distract from “Antidepressants may increase suicidal thoughts and actions and worsen depression in children and young adults”?

DRUGS

Illegal Counterfeit Pill Operations Killing Their Customers

Federal agents call the work of these illegal online pharmacies “dealing death,” and warn that the price of buying counterfeit drugs can be fatal. 

DRUGS

Called a Public Health Catastrophe, Regulatory Failures Fuel an Overall 24 Percent Increase in Overdose Deaths

The FDA has played a substantial role in the crisis which takes some 222 lives each day, recklessly approving dangerous opioid drugs.