institutions worldwide. the new york metro art and the louvre in paris. their main drug oxycontin has made them tens of billions of dollars since it was introduced in the 1990s. the lawsuit contends from 2008 to 2016 alone members of the sackler family paid themselves more than $4 billion in opoid proves. >> for purdue, it was all about the money. and it was profits over people. >> reporter: among other thing, the newly points to a strategy to blame the addict. in a confidential e-mail, richard sackler, then purdue chairman and president, wrote, we have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible. they are the culprits and the problem. they are reckless criminals. >> there were lies about the efficacy, about the safety, about the supposed nonaddictive nature of their product. >> reporter: in a statement, purdue pharma said the