Corporate Malfeasance Work?Do Settlements for Corporate Malfeasance Work

 Do settlements for corporate malfeasance Do Settlements for Corporate Malfeasance Work?Do Settlements for Corporate Malfeasance Work?The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than 470,000 Americans have died from prescription opioid overdoses since the addiction crisis began in the late 1990s, after pharmaceutical companies began aggressively marketing highly addictive painkillers.


Last year, the Justice Department arrested executives who worked for a major prescription drug distributor called Rochester Drug Cooperative — one of the companies that ship large quantities of opioids from manufacturers to local pharmacies. It is the first time executives of a pharmaceutical distributor and the distributor itself have been charged with drug trafficking. One of the company's executives pleaded guilty, however, while the firm itself admitted wrongdoing, it agreed to only pay a fine of $20 million, partially settling the matter. Executives allegedly funneled prescription opioid pills to pharmacies that then sold them on the black market.

The Justice Department announced last Wednesday that Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-to-plead-guilty-3-criminal-charges-ap/

However, it has been a contentious issue for many decades whether fining larger corporations and conglomerates that engage in corporate malfeasance and outright criminal behavior actually deters and disincentivizes these activities as a whole within the United States. Do you believe that more should be done to hold these corporate entities and the individuals that finance them accountable for the opioid epidemic, and if so, what? Do you believe that more CAN be done? For this discussion topic please use at least 2 citations in your response and respond to at least ONE classmate on their response.

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