The Sackler Lawsuit

Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, are blamed for playing the major part in creating the US opiod epidemic.

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While the company settled lawsuits in 2009 totaling $2.7 million brought by family members of those who had been harmed by OxyContin throughout the country, the company amped up its marketing of the drug to physicians by spending $121.6 million on sales reps for the coming year. The Sacklers paid themselves $335 million that year.

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The attorney general's complaint says that in a ploy to distance themselves from the emerging statistics and studies that showed OxyContin's addictive characteristics, the Sacklers approved public marketing plans that labeled people hurt by opioids as "junkies" and "criminals."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...=1550503071364

So what do people here think? Will they have to pay up? What's the role of illegal or unethical business practices in the opiod epidemic?

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