We all know how Wikipedia works - the definitions and descriptions can be changed by the public at large. Now, Marianne Skolek has defined Purdue Pharma for all the world to see - and in her view, her recent entry helps to set the record straight about its OxyContin marketing.
Skolek, you see, holds Purdue responsible for the 2002 death of her 29-year-old daughter, who was prescribed the painkiller for a herniated disk and wound up dying of heart failure, leaving behind a 6-year-old son. And she remains unsatisfied with a plea deal last year in which Purdue Pharma and three present and former execs agreed to pay $634.5 million to settle charges related to deceiving docs about the potential for abusing OxyContin. No one went to jail (back story).
And so she has spent the last few years dogging Purdue execs. As she writes on Wikipedia: The execs “were sentenced to 400 hours of community service at a drug rehab facility and were put on probation. Their actions have resulted in scores of deaths and addictions in every state in the country. Marianne Skolek, Activist for Victims of OxyContin and Purdue Pharma continues in her efforts to further expose them for their criminal activities.
“Skolek recently filed a complaint with the FDA and Attorney Generals throughout the country against Purdue Pharma for their marketing to pregnant women for pain in pregnancy. In addition, the FTC and FDA have had a complaint lodged against Purdue Pharma by Skolek for their marketing for the undertreatment of pain in infants and pediatric patients. These marketing ploys will result in an epidemic of addiction and death in the most vulnerable of people - pregnant women and infants and children. In her complaints, Skolek has accused Purdue Pharma of criminal marketing tactics.” (full entry is here)
Of course, Purdue can arrange to have this deleted, but meanwhile, her message is getting out there. A different sort of Wikipedia change briefly immersed pharma last year, by the way, when AstraZeneca found itself in the middle of a scandal after someone at the drugmaker omitted a line about its Seroquel antipsychotic and links to suicidal thoughts and behavior in teenagers (back story).
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Skolek, you see, holds Purdue responsible for the 2002 death of her 29-year-old daughter, who was prescribed the painkiller for a herniated disk and wound up dying of heart failure, leaving behind a 6-year-old son. And she remains unsatisfied with a plea deal last year in which Purdue Pharma and three present and former execs agreed to pay $634.5 million to settle charges related to deceiving docs about the potential for abusing OxyContin. No one went to jail (back story).
And so she has spent the last few years dogging Purdue execs. As she writes on Wikipedia: The execs “were sentenced to 400 hours of community service at a drug rehab facility and were put on probation. Their actions have resulted in scores of deaths and addictions in every state in the country. Marianne Skolek, Activist for Victims of OxyContin and Purdue Pharma continues in her efforts to further expose them for their criminal activities.
“Skolek recently filed a complaint with the FDA and Attorney Generals throughout the country against Purdue Pharma for their marketing to pregnant women for pain in pregnancy. In addition, the FTC and FDA have had a complaint lodged against Purdue Pharma by Skolek for their marketing for the undertreatment of pain in infants and pediatric patients. These marketing ploys will result in an epidemic of addiction and death in the most vulnerable of people - pregnant women and infants and children. In her complaints, Skolek has accused Purdue Pharma of criminal marketing tactics.” (full entry is here)
Of course, Purdue can arrange to have this deleted, but meanwhile, her message is getting out there. A different sort of Wikipedia change briefly immersed pharma last year, by the way, when AstraZeneca found itself in the middle of a scandal after someone at the drugmaker omitted a line about its Seroquel antipsychotic and links to suicidal thoughts and behavior in teenagers (back story).
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