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The Sacklers have been given immunity from civil lawsuits over the opioid crisis in exchange for $6billion that will go towards treatments for addiction.
The Sackler family name is now inextricably linked to the crisis of opioid addiction that has the US in a stranglehold. The family headed up Purdue Pharma, maker of the painkiller OxyContin.
'There’s not a billionaire on this planet that is not fucked up,' says the Nanette comic
It saddens me that we allow industry medical misinformation to harm patients but pass legislation threatening individual doctors' speech.
Making them pay is important but it’s not going to stop drugmakers from endangering public health.