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Newly unsealed court documents reveal Sackler family’s early concerns over lawsuits Meryl Kornfield © Toby Talbot/AP Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, was named in hundreds of lawsuits by states and cities over the drug s role in the opioid crisis. In the summer of 2007, after Purdue Pharma agreed to pay $600 million to resolve a federal investigation of opioid-marketing misconduct, the Sackler family members at the helm of the drug giant deliberated whether it was time to leave the pharmaceutical business. “I think we need to discuss if fundamentally we want to be in the pharmaceutical business going forward. I would vote no,” wrote David Sackler, who was not in the company at the time of the June email to his father, Richard, and cousin Mortimer, both on the company’s board. The email chain was about the possible buyout of a smaller company. “I think we’ve all had enough of a rough ride over the past 10 years to make me wary of committ

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