Mariana van Zeller
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I know, but everybody was just making so much money.
The doctors, the pain clinics, the distributors, the pharmaceutical companies.
The Sackler family.
I was about to say that.
What happened was that the settlement, they agreed to settle as long as they were never found.
The family itself was never found liable again, which is fucked up.
And I mean, it's been a million people who have died in the past 20 something years from the opiate crisis.
I don't think people realize how high the number is.
Yeah, with a drop in the bucket.
I mean, they're not directly guilty of all those deaths, but they created the problem of the opioid crisis, the biggest drug epidemic in America's history.
And they're buying their way out with a drop in the bucket of the profits.
He approved what?
From just becoming the original OxyContin?
Do you think he was bribed to do that?
But OxyContin has its place, like for terminally ill cancer patients, for people dealing with a lot of pain.
There's a reason why people should be available for those in need.