Big Pharma Empire Behind OxyContin Now Selling Overdose Cure

Big Pharma Empire Behind OxyContin Now Selling Overdose Cure
Mundipharma International headquarters at Cambridge Science Park in England, on Dec. 12, 2019. Leila Coker/AP Photo
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The gleaming white booth towered over the medical conference in Italy in October, advertising a new brand of antidote for opioid overdoses. “Be prepared. Get naloxone. Save a life,” the slogan on its walls said.

Some conference attendees were stunned when they saw the company logo: Mundipharma, the international affiliate of Purdue Pharma—the maker of the blockbuster opioid, OxyContin, widely blamed for unleashing the American overdose epidemic.