> ... Purdue used “thought leaders” in medicine like #RussellPortenoy, MD, Chairman of the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Beth Israel Hospital in New York, to promote.. opioids. Purdue and other.. companies paid large sums of money to Portenoy and his department. Purdue also paid many other physicians to tout the benefits of #oxycontin ... Purdue told its representatives to tell doctors that only persons with an “addictive personality” became addicts.

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