Opioid Addiction Crisis
For this discussion board I will be discussing the case of Purdue Pharma and the Opioid Addiction Crisis. This pharmaceutical company, owned by the Sackler family become a global powerhouse through marketing OxyContin, one of the world’s most successful legal drugs. Its revenues soared from $48 million in 1996, when the drug launched, to over $1 billion in 2000, an astonishing 120% year-over-year growth rate.
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- For this discussion board I will be discussing the case of Purdue Pharma and the Opioid Addiction Crisis. This pharmaceutical company, owned by the Sackler family become a global powerhouse through marketing OxyContin, one of the world’s most successful legal drugs. Its revenues soared from $48 million in 1996, when the drug launched, to over $1 billion in 2000, an astonishing 120% year-over-year growth rate.
- Reference:Rothaermel, F. T. (2024). Strategic management (6th ed.). McGraw Hill. (p. 552) https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/97812659545…
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