The latest demonstration features a 10-foot aluminum sculpture that depicts the spoon heroin addicts use to cook the drug before injecting it. The Rhodes name is engraved on the handle.
Rhodes Pharmaceuticals is another opioid producer reportedly controlled by Purdue’s controversial owners, the Sackler family. The drugmaker ranks among the largest U.S. producers of off-patent opioids.
The Sackler family has come under growing scrutiny in recent weeks after hundreds of pages of documents were made public in a lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts attorney general.
Mr. Esposito’s latest protest is part of his “Opioid Spoon Project,” an initiative that aims to inform the public about the key players responsible for the nationwide opioid epidemic.
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