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PURDUE CORPORATE INTEGRITY AGREEMENT

Surprisingly, even with this deal, the Sacklers` fortune would still be worth
more than a billion. Below is an alphabetical list of the major Corporate
Integrity Agreements (AIAs) of pharmaceutical and medical manufacturers with the
Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS). For the reader, most CIAs are generally valid for five (5)
years, so the completion date is approximately five years from the start date,
unless the manufacturer has violated the terms of its CIA or completed a second
or third CIA. Important background: Purdue launched OxyContin in 1995. More than
$35 billion of OxyContin has been sold by Purdue and more than $4 billion has
been paid to its owners since 2007. More than 100,000 Americans died from opioid
addiction between 2006 and 2012. Purdue and three of the company`s executives
had already pleaded guilty in 2007 to misleading the public about OxyContin`s
addictive potential between 1995 and 2001, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Together, they paid more than $630 million in fines, with Purdue also signing a
five-year corporate integrity agreement with the federal government.

Purdue met the requirements of the deal in 2013, according to government
officials. A decade later, communities affected by the opioid epidemic began
suing Purdue, which served as the basis for the announced settlement. Nevada`s
bankruptcy judge, who is now a professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law,
said the involvement of nearly all of the state`s attorneys general in the case
was unusual and introduced an element of policy. Attorneys general are different
from typical creditors in corporate bankruptcies, such as banks and sellers,
because they are elected police officers who see the use of police powers as
part of their job, he noted. After selling OxyContin for more than two decades,
the Sacklers would sell 100 percent of Purdue`s stock and control to a public
trust with a corporate charter that would require it to “use its assets to
address the opioid crisis,” according to testimony released last month. It would
make cash payments for this goal, bringing in life-saving overdose drugs —
injectable nalmenifen and over-the-counter Narcan — and generics to restore the
drugs. Surprise: even with this deal, the Sacklers` fortune would be worth more
than a billion. Fighters on all sides of the case rely much more on public
sentiment than on a typical corporate bankruptcy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert
D. Drain emphasized the public nature of the trial in his courtroom.

An agreement announced last month between a creditor committee and Purdue and
the Sacklers will keep confidential details of Purdue`s money transfer to the
Sackler family. Details include 700 pages of investigative documents related to
the transfers, according to court documents. The Sacklers also agreed to inform
the creditor committee of the location of the family`s property. Purdue
Frederick and three of its executives, with the exception of one member of the
Sandler family, pleaded guilty in 2007 to mistreating OxyContin. Purdue was the
subject of a five-year corporate integrity agreement that required
accountability for its marketing practices to the government, which it entered
into after graduating in 2013. This led to an abuse of the OxyContin pill in
2010. “The family generally refused to respond to the very inaccurate portrait
painted in court cases and media reports,” the family said in a court case. “The
family has been criticized for this choice, and perhaps they should have taken a
more proactive stance.” More than 100,000 Americans died from opioid addiction
between 2006 and 2012. OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has reportedly filed a
preliminary agreement with 22 attorneys general for more than 2,000 complaints
against the company for its alleged role in creating the opioid crisis.
Background: Purdue launched OxyContin in 1995. More than $35 billion of
OxyContin has been sold by Purdue and more than $4 billion has been sold to its
owners since 2007.

More than 100,000 Americans died from opioid addiction between 2006 and 2012.
Purdue and three of the company`s executives had already pleaded guilty in 2007
to misleading the public about OxyContin addiction between 1995 and 2001,
according to the Wall Street Journal. Together, they paid more than $630 million
in fines, and Purdue also signed a five-year business integrity agreement with
the federal government. According to government officials, Purdue met the
requirements of the agreement in 2013. . . .

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