Lawmakers grill consulting company over work with opioid manufacturers and FDA at same time

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A global consulting company is under fire for accusations it helped opioid manufacturers make big profits while also consulting for the government agency in charge of regulating those very drugs.

Healey said McKinsey actively worked to advise drug companies to fight off government regulations for addictive prescription drugs.

“The answer to that is quite simply absolutely,” said Healey. “McKinsey was actively coaching Purdue on how to ban together with other opioid companies to fight against those stricter safety requirements.” “It looked at a time period of the work without examining the nature of the work,” said Bob Sternfels, Global Managing Partner for McKinsey & Company. “It implied incorrect conflict standards and it took large speculative leaps to reach unwarranted findings.”

On Tuesday, lawmakers said the FDA announced changes to its contracts with McKinsey as the investigation is underway.

 

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Why leave their name out of the headlines? Why were they left out of any mention in Dopesick? They’d been helping all along. This is how they operate and who they are- they pump out corp CEOs and politicians in the grandest global good ol’ boy network 1/

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