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Today, florida was filled with what we call pill mills in the 2000s when i was getting oxy. i was being told from people that i trusted, people that i had been taught to trust since a very young age, that it would be okay. that if i experienced any symptoms of, quote, unquote, dependence, that it's what we call pseudoaddiction, i wasn't really addicted, that they could taper me off in the office or i could do it at home. but that was never the answer. they consistently upped the dose. i wish i would have known then. i wish my family would have known then what we know now. >> the current settle...

Millions of americans addicted to a potentially deadly narcotic as part of its business plan. purdue and the sacklers dispute that. but in 2020, prosecutors said, quote, purdue admitted that it marketed and sold its dangerous opioid products to health care providers even though it had reason to believe those providers were diverting them to abusers, unquote. and, quote, the company lied to the drug enforcement administration about steps it had taken to prevent such diversion fraud lendly increasing the amount of its products it was permitted to sell. purdue also paid kickbacks to providers to ...

Of a drug overdose. jenny was just one of them. she was 44 years old. suburban mom. college graduate. and i was really blind sided by it. i wasn't educated about opioid use disorder. our family never talked about it. so, i tried to tell our story as much as i can so other people don't make the same mistakes we did. i mean, i would have done anything for my sister. she never asked. just one in 10 people to struggle with opioids seek treatment. we have to fix this. brian: how did she start? >> i think it started with just being on kind of this uncoordinated cocktail of pain meds after some surge...

Well, today nbc news was the first to break the story that purdue pharma has had a new idea. today they've decided they will offer a $10 to $12 billion payout to settle all of those federal lawsuits that have been consolidated in ohio. $10 to $12 billion, billion with a "b." this is from nbc's scoop today. quote, purdue pharma's legal team informed the assembled plaintiffs' attorneys that if they didn't take the potential settlement the company would go ahead and declare bankruptcy. the company's lawyers claim the value of a fully liquidated purdue pharma in a standard bankruptcy would be cons...

Held responsible by a judge in oklahoma for johnson & johnson's rule in fueling the opioid epidemic in that state. johnson & johnson was ordered to pay $572 million in that trial van riemsdyk. now, that was a landmark decision. that was just yesterday. shiver down the spine of all the other drug companies, right? that's only the first verdict and it's more than half a billion dollars for that one company. what's going to happen to the rest of us when 2,000 other cases against us go to court? well, today nbc news was the first to break the story that purdue pharma has had a new idea. today they...