dailycaller
Ethan Barton
Investigative Reporter
9:16 PM 03/14/2018
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http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/14/american-cartel-opioid-blood-money-sackler-family/This is the seventh article in the American Cartel series about the billionaire Sackler family, Purdue Pharma and the opioid epidemic. Read the first, second, third, fourth and fifth, and sixth.
OxyContin’s manufacturer and its billionaire owners gave millions of dollars to political candidates
Purdue and other pharmaceutical companies spread propaganda and lobbied in favor of opioid prescribing
When excluding organizations and only looking at candidates, Democrats received nearly $110,000 more than GOP politicians
OxyContin’s manufacturer and its billionaire owners gave millions of dollars to political candidates — who often held powerful positions — and organizations, but the opioid profiteers’ tentacles of influence reach much farther, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found.
The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, which is widely blamed for playing an essential role in starting the opioid epidemic, have given more than $1.3 million to U.S. candidates and another $1 million to political organizations since OxyContin’s creation, according to Center for Responsive Politics data, but that’s just the surface of how deep the pharmaceutical titans’ influence runs.
