HEALTH #PurduePharma @PurduePharma Oxycotin maker expands into the anti addiction Market!

#Chutzpa #OxyContin Maker Explored Expansion Into “Attractive” Anti-Addiction Market

https://www.propublica.org/article/oxycontin-purdue-pharma-massachusetts-lawsuit-anti-addiction-market

Eight Sackler family members, company directors and current and former executives, created the opioid epidemic through illegal deceit. the Sacklers pushed for higher doses of OxyContin, guided efforts to mislead doctors and the public about the drug’s addictive capacity, and blamed misuse on patients. Purdue paid two executives convicted of fraudulently marketing OxyContin millions of dollars to assure their loyalty, concealed information about doctors suspected of inappropriately prescribing the opioid, and was advised by global consulting firm McKinsey & Co. on strategies to boost the drug’s sales and burnish its image, including how to “counter the emotional messages” of mothers whose children overdosed.

Prescription OxyContinpainkiller first launched in 1996 now kills more than 100 a day.

2007 Purdue admitted it misbranded the drug.

None of the Sacklers are personally being sued over it.

After Arthur Sackler died in 1987, Mortimer and his younger brother Raymond bought his option of Purdue Pharma for $22.4 million

Oxycontin grandson heir David Sackler spends $22.5 million in Bel Air paid entirely in cash.

Sackler is the grandson of Raymond Sackler, one of the three brothers who together launched and ran Purdue Pharma. (By 1996, when the company introduced OxyContin, only two brothers and their families were still involved in the business.) According to The New Yorker, David runs an investment firm for the family and “is the only member of the third generation who sits on Purdue’s board.”

Secret portions of a lawsuit allege that Purdue Pharma, controlled by the Sackler family, considered capitalizing on the addiction treatment boom — while going to extreme lengths to boost sales of its controversial opioid.

Purdue Pharma, is controlled by the Sackler family.

An internal correspondence beginning in 2014, Purdue Pharma executives discussed how the sale of opioids and the treatment of opioid addiction are “naturally linked” and that the company should expand across “the pain and addiction spectrum,” according to redacted sections of the lawsuit by the Massachusetts attorney general.

In 1998, two years after OxyContin was launched, Dr. Richard Sackler, a son of Purdue co-founder Raymond Sackler, instructed executives in an email that its tablets were not merely “therapeutic” but also “enhance personal performance,” like Viagra.

The five Purdue directors who are not Sacklers always voted with the family, according to the complaint. The family-controlled board approves everything from the number of sales staff to be hired to details of their bonus incentives, which have been tied to sales volume. CEO Michael Friedman and then-legal counsel Howard Udell each pleaded guilty in 2007 in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, Virginia, to a misdemeanor charge of misbranding OxyContin.

The Secretive Family Making Billions From the Opioid Crisis
You’re aware America is under siege, fighting an opioid crisis that has exploded into a public-health emergency. You’ve heard of OxyContin, the pain medication to which countless patients have become addicted. But do you know that the company that makes Oxy and reaps the billions of dollars in profits it generates is owned by one family?

Sackler Family photos

Yale donor linked to opioid crisis

Sackler family behind OxyContin made $4bn amid opioid crisis, filings claim. Purdue Pharma and leading Sacklers accused of deceiving public and doctors about dangers of opioid painkiller OxyContin

Tell the Smithsonian: Rename the Sackler Gallery. Take the blood money out of our museums.

Guggenheim Museum Says It Won’t Accept Gifts From Sackler Family

Opioid Protest at Met Museum Targets Donors Connected to OxyContin

London Museum Will Forgo Donation From Purdue Pharma’s Sackler Family

The Rich and Educated like Rand Paul and Robert Kennedy Jr., both vaccine skeptics put society at risk

FACT: There is NO link between autism and childhood vaccines. If you do not wish to be vaccinated then there should be a consequence and that is that you cannot infect other people.”

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4784301/senator-bill-cassidy-challenges-senator-rand-paul-flu-vaccine-immunization

FACT: There is a link between not getting vaccinated dying from measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR).

Not vaccinated? then you’ll die and nature weeds out the ignorant.

Rand Paul is vaccinated and vaccinated my kids. For myself and my children I believe that the benefits of vaccines greatly outweighing the risks.

Virtually all medical literature shows that the benefits of vaccines dramatically outweigh the limited risks.

A lack of vaccinations fueled a measles outbreak that has sickened 69 people in Washington and Oregon and more than 200 in New York. In 2015, an outbreak that began at Disneyland sickened 147 people.

Temple University

At least 54 cases of mumps tied to Temple University, according to health officials. The effectiveness of the mumps vaccination tends to wane over time so it’s not necessarily a case of unvaccinated people, according to health officials

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/least-16-diagnosed-mumps-temple-university-n980641

After Mumps Outbreak, Temple to Require New Students to Get Vaccinated
At least 15 mumps cases have been reported at Temple. For those wondering “Aren’t we supposed to get anti-mumps vaccines in elementary school?,” here’s an explainer.

State Vaccination Requirements

Studies have shown that vaccine exemptions tend to cluster geographically, making some communities at greater risk for outbreaks

State School and Childcare Vaccination Laws

How Cambridge Analytica got away with it Investigate Facebook

This is why GDPR had no minimum size of business or turnover, or exemptions for small businesses: a 10-person startup in Florida leaked data on 230 million people.

The rhetoric: Compliance will be too expensive for startups.
The reality: A startup that makes data compliance cheap for startups.

The Case for Investigating Facebook

Why I am calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook for violating antitrust laws.

@davidcicilline David N. Cicilline, a member of the House of Representatives, is chairman of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law.

Mr. Cicilline, a member of the House of Representatives from Rhode Island, is chairman of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law.

A year ago, the world learned that Facebook allowed a political consulting company called Cambridge Analytica to exploit the personal information of up to 87 million users, to obtain data that would help the company’s clients “fight a culture war” in America. Since then, a torrent of reports has revealed that the Cambridge Analytica scandal was part of a much broader pattern of misconduct by Facebook.

The commission has the authority to impose substantial fines on Facebook. Given that the corporation had more than $55 billion in revenue in 2018 alone, even a fine in the low billions of dollars will amount to a slap on the wrist, a mere cost of doing business. Moreover, because Facebook is a repeat offender, it is critical that the commission’s response is strong enough to prevent future violations. America’s laws are not suggestions.

When a company has repeatedly shown contempt for its legal commitments, the remedy must change how the company operates. Enforcement agencies can do this through deep reforms of the company’s structure. This includes removing members of the company’s board, or even top executives, along with other changes to the company’s business model to address dysfunction at the top.

Facebook recently announced plans to merge Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook into one integrated product, furthering its monopoly power.

–//–

Here’s What It’s Like to Accidentally Expose the Data of 230M People
https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-data-leak-fallout/

Exactis, the source of a leak of the personal records of nearly everyone in the United States.

The Exactis Data Breach: What Consumers Need to Know

By Gary Davis on Jun 28, 2018

There are data breaches, and then there are data breaches. For example, who could forget the Equifax data breach, which compromised the personal information of over half of the citizens of the United States? And now, a breach of similar magnitude has emerged, as a security researcher has discovered that marketing firm Exactis’ database was sitting on a publicly accessible server. Specifically, there were two versions of the database exposed online, each with around 340 million records—roughly two-thirds on consumers and the rest on businesses.

So how did Exactis have this much data in the first place? The Florida-based marketing firm collects and trades consumer data in order to refine the accuracy of targeted ads. Which is precisely what makes this breach so crucial, as the information exposed is highly personal. The leaked data includes people’s phone numbers, home and email addresses, interests, and the number, age, and gender of their children. As of now, credit card information and Social Security numbers don’t appear to have been leaked.

The behavioral data involved in this leak, alongside the personal information, makes this breach particularly concerning because of how this information can be used by cybercriminals to improve the success of socially engineered attacks. For instance, crooks can use such personal information in phishing attacks over email or social media. Now, cybercriminals can enact highly personalized attacks against consumers, who will already be faced with potentially fraudulent activity against their names.

Agency, Human Rights, Labor Unions, Executives and the Dress Code

Informed Agency, Advocacy, and Activism

Corporate Dresscodes Disguise verses Informed Agency

Changing the Dress Code

Used to be:

1930’s The executive secretary position was the CEO in training.

The Executive – did not wear jeans to the office.

1960s Jeans originally made for gold miners and worn by farmers make it into the counter culture.

1970’s “Dress For Success” meant suiting, heels, ties, jackets skirts, blouses, heels all a work place uniform of the white collar executive.

1990s Silly Valley West Coast hoodie culture changes to “Dress Down” everydays

2000 East coast Casual Fridays allows dark blue dress jeans

2019s East coast dark blue jeans allowed everyday and have become appropriate “executive” wear.

“White coller Executives” wear dark blue tailored jeans which helps to disguise class, status, and power in the corporate structure.

Today it’s jeans for all every day for everybody. There is no Dress for Success requirements to help disguise power inside corporations.

Corporate in their subtle way has disguised the line of power. They have created the illusion that “you are one of us, and we are one of you.”

The unions fought for the 8 hour work day and that weekend off. Turns out we all work on Maggies Farm. The work day is now 24/7/365 because we are all at their beck and cell phone text work call.

When they look like one of us – but aren’t – and they have all the power.

And robbing your ability to sue them for injustices and forcing you to work on projects without agency.

Working without the right to be in a union is under the control of corporate.

Suing to have the right to unionize is a political act.

“When they substitute their knowledge for ours, we grow angry because they have robbed us of our agency.”

Privacy is Political.

Choosing not to work on projects that destroy privacy is a political act.
Suing for the right of agency to know what the project will be used for is a political act.

National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
Social studies is learning, doing, being, growing, and acting.

The questions we pose, the inquiries we pursue lead us: to a deeper understanding of ourselves and others, to appreciate the complexity of the world in which we live, to grapple with difficult topics, and to speak out against systemic injustices.

The study of social studies enables us to not only have a voice, but to actively engage in our local, national, and international communities as informed, educated, and compassionate citizens. Our collective civic engagement is not simply about advocacy or action, but also about listening, questioning, respectful dialogue, and seeking common ground around shared democratic values.

Social studies teaches us that knowledge is not neutral; it is socially constructed. Thus, the real value of knowledge is what one can do with that knowledge in pursuit of inquiry. Examining how we communicate and act upon our knowledge compels us to realize the importance of critical inquiry. In fact, critical inquiry is at the heart of social studies and in practice is informed action through agency, advocacy, and activism.