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‘This Is Reprehensible’: Nan Goldin Responds to News That Richard Sackler Has Patented an OxyContin-Addiction Drug

The photographer's activist group PAIN demands that the drug's manufacturer release its new patent so that the life-saving drug can be produced generically.

“They are profiting off the crisis that they subsidized with their most profitable pill, OxyContin,” Goldin and the co-authors write. “This is reprehensible and shows a lack of any moral conscience. Maybe they can patent a funeral parlor next.” The statement goes on to condemn Purdue, its owners—the billionaire Sackler family that has deep ties to the art world—and other drug makers for generating any profit from urgently needed anti-opioid treatments, demanding that they should be made available for free.

“It is evil to profit from deliberately making people sick, then selling them a ‘cure’ for their illness,” the group writes.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nan-goldin-sackler-statement-purdue-1346279/amp-page

Dr. Richard Sackler

The man at the center of the secret Oxycontin files.

https://www.statnews.com/2016/05/12/man-center-secret-oxycontin-files/