MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes September 17, 2019 07:48:00
The wall street journal. the company was extremely successful in pushing prescriptions. opioid sales sharply rising in the critical years from the late '90s onward. it was devastatingly destructive to america. they were involved in more than 47,000 drug deaths according to the cdc. nearly 218,000 people died in the u.s. from overdoses related to prescription opioids between 1989 and 2017. that's just prescription opioids. purdue pharma is not the only manufacturer but it is arguably one of the key precipitating causes of the opioid epidemic. because of this purdue pharma is now facing thousand...