Publicis Pays $350 Million for Role in Opioid Epidemic

Publicis Pays $350 Million for Role in Opioid Epidemic

The Publicis Groupe — one of the world’s largest PR firms that represents major companies within the technology, pharmaceutical and banking industries — recently agreed to pay a $350 million settlement over claims that its false and misleading marketing contributed to the opioid epidemic in the U.S.

Accusations against Publicis Health, Purdue’s PR firm, included creating the marketing materials that convinced doctors to overprescribe OxyContin, placing illegal advertisements for OxyContin in the electronic medical records of patients, creating training materials for sales reps on how to combat doctor’s objections to the drugs, developing strategies to counter opioid guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and creating marketing strategies to “humanize” the OxyContin brand and counter negative press about addiction risks.

The $350 million settlement will be divided among 50 states, with the highest settlement amounts being allocated to California, Florida and Texas. Publicis does not admit wrongdoing or liability as part of the settlement

Publicis, which is now paying its way out of legal trouble over the false marketing, is a funder of censorship. Publicis provided seed money to launch NewsGuard, and is officially partnered with NewsGuard “to fight the ‘infodemic’ of misinformation about COVID-19 and its vaccines”

Publicis is also a partner of the World Economic Forum, which is leading the call for a “Great Reset.” In fact, Publicis appears to be coordinating the global effort to suppress information that runs counter to the technocratic narrative about COVID-19, its origin, prevention and treatment

Thank you Dr. Mercola for bringing this to our attention.  I’m sharing with my followers as this important development needs to get out to the public.  We need to wake up those who are sleeping at the wheel of life and help to bring them to their senses before any further damage is done.  The truth always wins!

Read the full article…..

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/02/12/publicis-groupe-opioid-epidemic.aspx?ui=34dfaf8f5a4db21e8394fbc6da3ff692e34f3808f80dae50ea3ea6010a1d37e5&sd=20130709&cid_source=wnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20240212Z1&foDate=false&mid=DM1526664&rid=2043052110

 

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