From what I can tell, the link between Purdue Pharma and the Sackler's campaign to get opioids prescribed to patients with pain - and indeed, their use to relie

From what I can tell, the link between Purdue Pharma and the Sackler's campaign to get opioids prescribed to patients with pain - and indeed, their use to relieve pain in general - and the widespread opioid addiction and overdoae crisis seemed to be extremely tenuous and mostly pushed for political reasons. Basically, we wanted someone big and high-profile to blame that fitted into all our nice neat existing narratives about evil megacorporations and the wealthy, and plenty of journalists and prosecutors were willing to give that to us.