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What does the Sackler defence refer to?

• aaomidi 3y ago
  Opioids.
• LordKeren 3y ago
  The Sackler family owned Purdue Pharma, which created OxyContin and heavily marketed the drug. Many Americans see the family as partially responsible for kickstarting the opioid epidemic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family The family has been largely successful at avoiding any personal liability in Purdue’s litigations. Many people feel the settlements of the Purdue lawsuits were too lenient. One of the key perceived aspects of the final settlements was that there was too many victims of the opioid epidemic for the courts to handle and attempt to make whole.
  • networkchad 3y ago
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