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Oxycontin made one american family very rich and helped fuel the opoid crisis killing many of those who became addicted. i lost my niece a couple years ago to it. i lost a brother. that family should have to go to funerals. reporter: that family is the sacklers, they get to keep the bulk of their fortune and are shielded from future lawsuits. their company purdue pharma made billions developing opoid-based drugs, misrepresenting the risk of addiction. the sacklers directed and approved hiring sales representatives whose jobs were to visit doctors and persuade them to prescribe higher doses of opoids. reporter: they ll have to pay billions of dollars. ....
Also offering an olive branch to climate activists. the biden administration also on monday announced sweeping new protections for federal land and waters in alaska making the entire u.s. arctic ocean off-limits to future oil and gas leasing. in all the administration says that it will protect up to 16 million acres from future fossil fuel leasing. of course this is all happening as the arctic is warming faster than any other place on the planet. rene marsh, cnn, washington. u.s. government suing the rite aid pharmacy chain accusing it of missing red flags as it illegally filled prescriptions for opoids. over five years they say they filled prescriptions medically unnecessary or not issued in the usually course of professional practice. and also of intentionally deleting some internal warnings ....
Additional revelation that we re looking at here is murdaugh discussing his addiction to opoids. and some of these numbers are astounding. murdaugh says that he took roughly 30 he took roughly sometimes 60 pills a day. 30 milligrams ofxycodone instan release. and the prosecutor saying at some times were you taking 3,000 milligrams of opoids a day and he said yes. even when he did that interview with law enforcement after the murders, that he had them in his pocket and had been dealing with it 37b. and because of the prestige that the tau fammurdaugh family hered ....
He is a professional liar and made a career out of separating people from their money and now he is trying to pull one over on the juror and he might have succeeded. apparently there were two jurors crying along with him. and that is never a good look for a prosecutor when you see jurors crying along with the defendant. all he needs is one juror to have some reasonable doubt and he has a hung jury. he took the stand because he knew he had a real problem. he was lying from day one. he said he was never at the kennels but turns out that he was. and now he has a new story and he s trying to convince the jury that this time he was telling the truth. it was the drugs and opoids that made him do it, that it made him so paranoid that he lied from the beginning but not paranoid enough that he actually killed the two victims here. so i don t buy it, but again, it only takes one juror. and let s remind our viewers ....
Just two days before, mother and daughter had attended the golden globes where a bio pic on elvis was honored. presley leaned on a friend during this interview. just before she spoke at graceland about withdrawing from public view on celebration of what you have been her famous father s 88th birthday. i keep saying you re the only people that can bring me out of my house. presley had previously lived a very public life, marrying the king of pop before she would embark on a singing career of her own. while she left the limelight in recent years, she shared her recent struggles. she wrote about her addiction to opioids saying, you say read this and wonder how after losing people close to me i also fell prey to opoids. after losing one of her children to suicide two years ago, she wrote, you do not get over it. you do not move on, period. ....