Article runs a weird line. Foremost, was it obvious at the time that opioids would grow to be highly damaging? Maybe. Was it obvious to the consultants? Maybe a

Article runs a weird line. Foremost, was it obvious at the time that opioids would grow to be highly damaging? Maybe. Was it obvious to the consultants? Maybe again. Some points here are rough. “It was that year that Craig Landau, then Purdue’s chief medical officer and now its chief executive, had an email exchange that included a McKinsey consultant about how to counter mothers whose teenagers had overdosed on OxyContin. The solution: bring in patients to emphasize how the drug helps to relieve pain.“ This really does not feel malicious. It’s not discrediting the losses at all.