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Family behind OxyContin attests to its role in opioid crisis This photo shows the Purdue Pharma logo. (Source: AP Photo/Douglas Healey, File) By GEOFF MULVIHILL | December 17, 2020 at 12:00 AM CST - Updated December 17 at 1:58 PM (AP) - Two of the owners of the company that makes OxyContin acknowledged to a congressional committee on Thursday that the powerful prescription painkiller has played a role in the national opioid crisis but stopped short of apologizing or admitting wrongdoing. “I want to express my family’s deep sadness about the opioid crisis,” David Sackler, a member ...

Kathe Sackler, David Sackler’s cousin, told the House Oversight and Reform Committee that she knows “the loss of any family member or loved one is terribly painful and nothing is more tragic than the loss of a child.” “As a mother,” she said, “my heart breaks for the parents who have lost their children. I am so terribly sorry for your pain.” Asked about her role, she said she had done soul-searching. “I have tried to figure out if there’s anything I could have done differently knowing what I knew then, not what I know now,” she said. “There is nothing I can find that I ...

Kathe Sackler, David Sackler’s cousin, told the House Oversight and Reform Committee that she knows “the loss of any family member or loved one is terribly painful and nothing is more tragic than the loss of a child.” “As a mother,” she said, “my heart breaks for the parents who have lost their children. I am so terribly sorry for your pain.” Asked about her role, she said she had done soul-searching. “I have tried to figure out if there’s anything I could have done differently knowing what I knew then, not what I know now,” she said. “There is nothing I can find that I ...