Zohran Mamdani: “In 1996, Purdue Pharma brought OxyContin to market.”

“No one recovers alone. But as Phoenix House grew its capacity to support New Yorkers over the decades, the number of New Yorkers in need of help grew too. Because In 1996, Purdue Pharma brought OxyContin to market. While OxyContin and other opioids have reaped tens of billions of dollars in financial rewards for corporate giants like Purdue Pharma, Johnson and Johnson, Mallinckrodt, McKesson, McKinsey and more.” (02:00–02:05)

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