MSNBC MSNBC Live With Ali Velshi October 21, 2019 19:52:00
All of these cases. those talks collapsed. according to the cdc, nearly 400,000 people in the u.s. died between 1999 and 2017. the result of the opioid crisis. as we learn more about these settlements, we want to take a moment to talk about what happens next. where will the settlement money go? to do that we want to take a look at one previous case. there's a new report from the "washington post" focusing on west virginia's settlement with the oxycontin maker purdue pharma back in 2001, which was the beginning of this crisis. it takes an in-depth look at the real human consequences of the opio...