The figure, later found to be inflated, was cited by drugmakers to convince doctors to write large numbers of opioid prescriptions. One report issued by the Academies claimed that 100 million, or 40 percent of Americans, were in chronic pain. The New York Times reported this month that even as the Academies advised the government on opioid policy, the organization accepted $19 million from the Sackler family and appointed influential members to its committees who had financial ties to Purdue Pharma.
The company’s drug, Ox圜ontin, helped set in motion a prescription opioid crisis that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. More than 75 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine demanded on Thursday that the organization explain why it has for years failed to return or repurpose millions of dollars donated by the Sackler family, including some who led Purdue Pharma.
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