Report: Purdue Pharma Offered $10 to $12 Billion for Opioid Crisis Settlement

[Uncle Joe]

Purdue Pharma, the company that makes the painkiller OxyContin, is offering to settle more than 2,000 lawsuits over its role fueling the opioid crisis for $10 billion to $12 billion, NBC News reported on Tuesday.

The company’s lawyers allegedly discussed the offer last week during a meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, with at least 10 state attorneys general. David Sackler, a member of Purdue’s board, represented the Sackler family. He has recently refused to accept blame for his family’s role in opioid crisis, which killed more than 400,000 people between 1999 and 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said in a lawsuit in May: “Twelve years ago, Oregon settled with Purdue for deceptively marketing OxyContin, and for blatantly ignoring the alarming rate of addiction that their drug was causing.”

She continued: “Over the past decade, the destruction that OxyContin has caused has skyrocketed...The time has come to hold these members of the Sackler family personally responsible.”

https://splinternews.com/report-purdue-pharma-offered-10-to-12-billion-for-op-1837633427

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1. The First Offer is Usually a Lowball

[Uncle Joe]

2. The thing is they settled with Oregon twelve years knowing the danger

of how they marketed their product and then continued to sell to it date with no discernible change.

How many Americans died needlessly after 2008 from this?

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3. Federal Criminal Charges are Long Overdue

They belong behind bars!

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4. Blood money