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The EPA values one human life at $10M. A conservative estimate of the number of people killed by the Sackler family's companies (testified in court) was ~~245,0
by hyeonwho4 2y ago
The EPA values one human life at $10M. A conservative estimate of the number of people killed by the Sackler family's companies (testified in court) was ~~245,000~~ Edit: probably at least 100,000, see below. So if opiates were environmental pollutants, the Sacklers would be on the hook for $1T in damages. Their immediate settlement was $6B.
Roughly three orders of magnitude too small.
- richwater 2y agoAttributing every single opioid overdose to solely the Sackler family is so laughably ludicrous it's hard to take this comment seriously.
- ygjb 2y agook, so now you are just arguing percentages. What is an appropriate amount of the harm to be apportioned to the Sackler family?
- hyeonwho4 2y agoThe number of opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2021 was 645,000, according to CDC. Purdue Pharma brought in $35B in OxyContin revenue from 1995 to 2017. OxyContin was prescribed to 6.2 million people in 2002. I'll edit the number above to ~100,000 as an estimate of the number of victims, since it looks like I misremembered 645,000 as the number of Purdue-related deaths. Still, that's assuming only 1.6% of those 6.2 million people taking OxyContin in 2002 developed an addiction, which seems low.