Lawyers for Purdue Pharma, the maker of oxycontin, appeared in a New York bankruptcy court, part of a plan to help reimburse state and local governments for the damage done by prescription painkillers and illegal opioids.
Hathaway says 2010 was a pivotal year-that's when Purdue Pharma LP, maker of OxyContin, changed the pill's chemistry so it couldn't be crushed into a snortable powder or heated into a vapor for inhaling.
Vasili Kandinski seems like a much better stylistic match, but Picasso is a much bigger name that transcends the art world, one that is much more evocative of the artistic beauty of the moth.
Kathe, his half sister, suggested studying patients who had switched to OxyContin to see if they could find patterns that could help them win new customers, according to court filings in Massachusetts.
It's important to note that while their company, Purdue Pharma, pleaded guilty twice to federal criminal charges for illegal marketing of OxyContin, the Sacklers have never been personally charged with a crime.
In one study, researchers presented 60 people with a salad of the exact same ingredients tossed, neatly sorted, or arranged to look like a famous Kandinsky painting.
The manufacture of the opioid Oxycontin have offered billions of dollars to settle liability law suit over claims of the company fueled the opioid epidemic.