May 11, 2019

Stanton A. Glantz, PhD

UCSF Industry Documents Library releases first OxyContin documents

While the largest and best-know collection in the UCSF Industry Documents Library is the Truth Tobacco Documents Library, we now also include Drug, Chemical Food industry documents.  Thanks to a donation of documents from Kaiser Health News, we have now added our first collection of internal drug industry documents on OxyContin promotion.  Check them out here.

I hope that this collection will be the first of many.  In particular, state attorneys general should follow Minnesota Attorney General Hubert "Skip" Humprey III's example and refuse to settle their lawsuits unless the defendant drug companies agree to allow them to make all the discovery documents public, rather than destroying them, as has happened in the first two settlements.

Skip Humphrey said that the most important thing that would come out of the state tobacco litigation was the truth.  That's why he broke precident and demanded that the tobacco documents produced in the discovery in the Minnesota case be made public.  He was right; the Truth Tobacco Documents Library has grown to over 91 million pages (and is still growing) and has resulted in nearly1000 scientific publications, government reports, and news stories that have changed the world.

The AGs suing pharma over opiods should follow his lead.

We would love to make the documents available.

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