oxycontin made one american family very rich and helped fuel the opoid crisis killing many of those who became addicted. >> i lost my niece a couple years ago to it. i lost a brother. >> that family should have to go to funerals. >> reporter: that family is the sacklers, they get to keep the bulk of their fortune and are shielded from future lawsuits. their company purdue pharma made billions developing opoid-based drugs, misrepresenting the risk of addiction. >> the sacklers directed and approved hiring sales representatives whose jobs were to visit doctors and persuade them to prescribe higher doses of opoids. >> reporter: they'll have to pay billions of dollars.
also offering an olive branch to climate activists. the biden administration also on monday announced sweeping new protections for federal land and waters in alaska making the entire u.s. arctic ocean off-limits to future oil and gas leasing. in all the administration says that it will protect up to 16 million acres from future fossil fuel leasing. of course this is all happening as the arctic is warming faster than any other place on the planet. rene marsh, cnn, washington. u.s. government suing the rite aid pharmacy chain accusing it of missing red flags as it illegally filled prescriptions for opoids. >> over five years they say they filled prescriptions medically unnecessary or not issued in the usually course of professional practice. and also of intentionally deleting some internal warnings
additional revelation that we're looking at here is murdaugh discussing his addiction to opoids. and some of these numbers are astounding. murdaugh says that he took roughly 30 -- he took roughly sometimes 60 pills a day. 30 milligrams ofxycodone instan release. and the prosecutor saying at some times were you taking 3,000 milligrams of opoids a day and he said yes. even when he did that interview with law enforcement after the murders, that he had them in his pocket and had been dealing with it 37b. and because of the prestige that the tau fammurdaugh family hered
he is a professional liar and made a career out of separating people from their money and now he is trying to pull one over on the juror and he might have succeeded. apparently there were two jurors crying along with him. and that is never a good look for a prosecutor when you see jurors crying along with the defendant. all he needs is one juror to have some reasonable doubt and he has a hung jury. he took the stand because he knew he had a real problem. he was lying from day one. he said he was never at the kennels but turns out that he was. and now he has a new story and he's trying to convince the jury that this time he was telling the truth. it was the drugs and opoids that made him do it, that it made him so paranoid that he lied from the beginning but not paranoid enough that he actually killed the two victims here. so i don't buy it, but again, it only takes one juror. >> and let's remind our viewers
just two days before, mother and daughter had attended the golden globes where a bio pic on elvis was honored. presley leaned on a friend during this interview. just before she spoke at graceland about withdrawing from public view on celebration of what you have been her famous father's 88th birthday. >> i keep saying you're the only people that can bring me out of my house. >> presley had previously lived a very public life, marrying the king of pop before she would embark on a singing career of her own. ♪ >> while she left the limelight in recent years, she shared her recent struggles. she wrote about her addiction to opioids saying, you say read this and wonder how after losing people close to me i also fell prey to opoids. after losing one of her children to suicide two years ago, she wrote, you do not get over it. you do not move on, period.
birthday. >> i keep saying you are the only people that can bring me out of my house. >> reporter: presley had previously lived a very public life, marrying the king of pop before she would embark on a singing career of her own. ♪ >> reporter: while she left the limelight in recent years, she shared her personal struggles and wrote about her addiction to opoids saying in the forward of this book, you may read this and wonder how, after losing people close to me, i also fell prey to yoe opoids. after losing one of her four children to suicide, she wrote. you do not get over it. you do not move on, period. >> joining me now, cnn entertainment reporter. what a heart-breaking week what happened with lisa marie presley. we just saw her at the golden globes right before this happened. tell us about that and the plans now to remember her.
It can play a role in how young adults manage pain and opioid use. Young adults who experienced trauma in childhood are more at risk for misusing prescription opioids, according to new research from the University of Georgia. The study, which was recently published in the Journal of American College Health, supports arguments to expand opioid risk screeners to include adverse childhood experiences. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) describe a range of stressors, some more severe than others, that can lead to negative health outcomes as an adult. These can range from having divorced parents to experiencing domestic violence or food insecurity.It can play a role in how young adults manage pain and opioid use. Young adults who experienced trauma in childhood are more at risk for misusing prescription opioids, according to new research from the University of Georgia. The study, which was recently published in the Journal of American College Health, supports arguments to expand opioid ► The FINANCIAL Health&Beauty
it is not clear whether smith has an attorney or how he intends to plea. murdaugh told south carolina police he was in such a bad financial position he thought death was his only way to ensure a life insurance payout for his son his attorney says. >> he believed that $10 million policy had a suicide exclusion. suicide exclusions are only good for two years. and he didn't realize that. so he arranged to have this guy shoot him. >> reporter: his lawyer says that murdaugh was in a massive depression after the unsolved murder of his wife and son and that he also has a severe opoid addiction. >> his father died of cancer that same week and he got through it with the use of opoids. >> reporter: and murdaugh abruptly resigned from his law firm after being accused of misappropriating funds which his lawyer says had been used to purchase drugs.