Purdue Pharma Canada
Payments like this are a rounding error for big drug companies. Canada has no whistleblower-style False Claims Act equivalent2.
Payments like this are a rounding error for big drug companies
Canada has no whistleblower-style False Claims Act equivalent
The Fentanyl Crisis Research Synthesis: Sharpest Evidence fo
The agency relied on two internal drug-report searches in May and July 2001 that found no adverse drug reports involving OxyContin.
The Fentanyl Crisis Research Synthesis: Sharpest Evidence fo
The 2006 revision merely added the word "usually" to the misleading claim — i.e., "Drug abuse is usually not a problem…"
The Fentanyl Crisis Research Synthesis: Sharpest Evidence fo
Purdue Canada distributed a pain management book to doctors and health professions students at the University of Toronto between 2004 and 2010
Lisa Argyle is affiliated with Purdue and formerly BYU
PASS 4 — The Researchers, The Natural Experiments, and the T
National opioid dispensing dropped 14.9% (Feb 2012 – Apr 2016)
The Fentanyl Crisis Research Synthesis: Sharpest Evidence fo
oxycodone dispensing nationally dropped 46.4% (Gomes et al., 2017)
Fentanyl rose from 25.8% of opioid-related deaths in Ontario in 2012 to nearly 90% by 2021
Purdue Canada paid 100 doctors per year up to $2,000 per talk to go across Canada and talk about pain management to other physicians
OxyContin was approved by Health Canada in 1996
How We Got Here: A Field Guide to the Fentanyl Crisis in Can
the longest trial ran only 24 days
How We Got Here: A Field Guide to the Fentanyl Crisis in Can
These are things people say about Purdue Pharma Canada that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.
"prohibition-style supply intervention without demand-side support produced the fentanyl era"
"Canada's Food and Drugs Act could be used to send a strong message that this kind of promotional activity is not going to be tolerated"
"Perhaps it's worthwhile to send a strong message that this kind of promotional activity is not going to be tolerated"
"Purdue Canada engaged in questionable or even illegal activities in the marketing of OxyContin in Canada"
"did Purdue engage in questionable or even illegal activities in the marketing of OxyContin in Canada?"
"Health Canada's delayed response allowed Purdue to use the misleading information in its promotional materials for more than 10 years (1996–2006)."