On June 11, I wrote an article for publication regarding the FDA acknowledging they illegally approved Purdue Pharma’s highly addictive and dangerous opioid, OxyContin.

For 23 years, I have exposed the FDA for their knowingly ignoring the deaths and addictions while Purdue Pharma profited in the billions of dollars and officials in the FDA were criminally involved in unimaginable ways.

I am providing Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. with the following information for a thorough investigation into the FDA’s illegal approval of OxyContin:

For years, OxyContin was being abused by victims crushing and snorting the opioid.  This was well known by not only Purdue Pharma, but also by the FDA.

In 2020, the FDA held an Advisory Committee meeting to review the “reformulation” of OxyContin to prevent it from being abused.  Although Purdue Pharma lauded that multiple studies indicated the reformulated tablets were harder to crush and dissolve, making them difficult to snort or inject, the FDA Advisory Committee thought otherwise.

They ruled that Purdue Pharma’s data and data from other researchers did not conclude the reformulation curbed abuse or led to few overdoses.  Link to my article FDA Advisory Committee Meeting on Reformulation of OxyContin Challenged.

While exposing the FDA for deliberately ignoring Purdue Pharma’s criminally marketing OxyContin, I had emailed every Attorney General in the country that 12 warning letters had been sent to Purdue Pharma by the FDA — with no action being taken.  I received a call from a Tom Abrams at the FDA who was not happy with me.  When I asked him why warnings were sent, but it stopped there, he became irate and said words I will never forget — “We don’t have the manpower to police Purdue Pharma.”  My reply to Abrams was “And you don’t think they know that?”  I was left with a dial tone.

At one point, the FDA decided to have a weekly dialogue with me. In their words, “until things were good between us.”  That dialogue continued for almost two years and opened my eyes wider.

During one conversation, I advised the FDA official that Purdue Pharma was discretely promoting OxyContin for something they called “pregnancy pain.”  I was told that would not be allowed by the FDA — so why did Purdue Pharma get away with it.  I sent the FDA proof of what I had reported to them and wrote an article about it. Purdue Pharma removed all reference to “pregnancy pain” on their website. Here is the link U.S. Senators are Outraged by FDA Approving OxyContin for Children!.

In 2021, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as Chairman of the Children’s Defense Organization, asked me to write an article regarding Janet Woodcock, MD being confirmed as FDA Commissioner with her many conflicts of interest.  Here is my link to the article Why Janet Woodcock Is Wrong Person to Lead FDA • Children’s Health Defense.

Woodcock was not confirmed.

There were huge conflicts of interest within the highest echelon of the FDA as exposed by me.  They are as follows:

1. Curtis Wright, MD
2. Bob Rappaport, MD
3. Sharon Hertz, MD
4. Ellen Fields, MD
5. Margaret Hamburg, MD

My objection to Wright being appointed to any Advisory Committee at the FDA is that while employed at the FDA, he was involved in the approval process of Purdue Pharma’s blockbuster drug, OxyContin.  He subsequently was hired by Purdue Pharma in an executive position.  I believe this was a violation of FDA employee practices and unfortunately, Wright was never charged with this violation.  A Statue of Limitations on charges against Wright was the FDA’s reasoning for inaction.  Here is one link on my exposing Wright, Rappaport, Hertz and Fields, Is the FDA Really the Watchdog of the American People or Foxes in the Hen House?

Last, but far from least, is Margaret Hamburg, former FDA Commissioner, whose husband, Peter Fitzhugh Brown, was a hedge funder at Renaissance Technologies and Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-President and Director.  Here are links to my articles on Hamburg’s conflicts of interest as FDA Commissioner It’s Time for Impunity to End with the FDA: PART 3

Is FDA’s Margaret Hamburg, MD Contributing to the U.S. Heroin and Opioid Epidemic by Living in an Ivory Tower?

Since I advised Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Pam Bondi that I would validate the FDA’s further illegal behavior, consider it provided.