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Tufts University to dissolve relationship with family behind OxyContin amid national opioid epidemic
Tufts University announced that it is severing ties with the billionaire family that owns Purdue Pharma, the firm that manufactures OxyContin.
The Massachusetts school announced Thursday that it is stripping the Sackler family name from its campus and will no longer accept any donations from them amid concerns that they are helping fuel the ongoing opioid crisis. The Sacklers and Tufts had maintained a nearly 40-year relationship that helped funnel millions to the school's science and medical programs.
"Our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and others have shared with us the negative impact the Sackler name has on them each day, noting the human toll of the opioid epidemic in which members of the Sackler family and their company, Purdue Pharma, are associated," the school said in a statement. "We are grateful to those who have shared their thoughts with us. It is clear that the Sackler name, with its link to the current health crisis, runs counter to the school's mission.
"In taking these actions, we will more fully enable our university and medical school to move forward in support of their missions and to help the countless individuals and families who have suffered as a result of the opioid crisis," the statement added.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday December 11 2019, @07:30PM (4 children)
It seems to me the A/C you're arguing with is using the Libertarian magical thinking of "Voluntary Contracts" and you're living in the real world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @07:57PM (3 children)
Where did you get that?
The people on this sites are literally nuts, they just make up strawmen out of thin air, argue with them, then vote each other up.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:15PM (2 children)
I got it from your first comment:
Advocating getting rid of prescriptions sounds like a Libertarian thing to me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:30PM (1 child)
Where did I advocate getting rid of prescriptions? I said because there are prescriptions we can't blame the person blindly taking the drug.
You are a seriously confused individual, please stop making up strawmen loosely related to my posts.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:48PM
Thanks for the insults by the way. It is not strengthening your arguments.