19 février 2021
Markus Pohlmann, « When good advice is expensive - Purdue, McKinsey and the opioid crisis in the U.S. », Corporate Crime Stories, ID : 10670/1.yqsm67
by Laura Sophia Hauck For years, cancer has topped the list of leading causes of death among people aged under 55 in Germany, while in the U.S. it is overdoses resulting from abuse of opioid painkillers. Over the past two decades, their use has become an epidemic; an addiction wave that claims more victims every year. For example, in 2019 alone, approximately 70,260 people in the U.S. died as a result of opioid overdoses, two-thirds of which were from prescription drugs. The best-known active...