foundation. sounds nice, right? and nonprofit focused on reducing pain. except the organization was basically a fronts for big pharma. it received 90% of its funding from medical companies, some of their board members have extensive financial ties to drug makers and the group lobbies against limits on of your use. the most commercially successful of the new opioids is actually content. it was released in 1996 by purdue farmer with the promise that the drug to be prescribed would last risk of a book abuse and addiction. well, that turned out to be a lie. in 2007 purdue farmer paid $600 million in fines and three executives pled guilty to felony misbranding over oxycontin. don't feel too sorry for them. it is owned by the. [inaudible] family. in 2015 with the opioid epidemic that they helped cause raging through our country, guess where