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
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
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
office, our state s leaders had come together to pass bipartisan measures that were making a difference. in reading and math, our student were in the top. that reveals what good teachers will do if the system will let them. the problem was, this success wasn t shared. a significant achievement gap between students of different races remain. so we set out to do our best to close it. i urge faster interventions and promote science and excellence skills in schools and propose paying bonuses to our best teachers. i refuse to weaken testing standards and instead raise them. students now many massachusetts have to pass an exam in math and english and i added a science requirement as well. i put in place a merit scholarship for all those students who excelled the top 25% of students in each high school in massachusetts were awarded a john and abigail scholarship, four years of learning. and not only did our test scores improve, we also narrowed the achievement gap. they were not hap