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US opioid crisis victims testify at emotional Purdue Pharma hearing
About 40 victims and relatives described addiction, deaths and ruined lives as the judge weighs Purdue’s dissolution and a settlement shielding the Sacklers.
- Dozens of victims testified against Purdue Pharma in Newark on Tuesday, expressing grief and anger ahead of the company's dissolution. Some 40 victims and their families attended the hearing, while others joined online to voice opposition to the settlement.
- Purdue Pharma admitted to aggressively marketing OxyContin by paying doctors to prescribe it, generating tens of billions of dollars for the Sackler family. Addiction often begins with prescribed painkillers before users escalate to illicit drugs.
- Judge Madeline Cox Arleo ordered Steve Miller, Purdue's board chair, to apologize after hearing six hours of "heartbreaking" testimony. Arleo also apologized on behalf of the United States government, saying it "failed" to protect the public from the "criminal enterprise."
- Purdue Pharma faces dissolution on May 1 as part of a settlement with Several states. The company will be replaced by Knoa Pharma, a public benefit company providing opioid-use disorder treatments and overdose reversal medicines.
- Between 1999 and 2023, around 806,000 people died from opioid overdoses in the United States, according to government data. For Many families, the fight continues daily in community initiatives set to receive part of the settlement sums owed by Purdue.
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US opioid crisis victims testify at emotional Purdue Pharma hearing
Dozens of victims of the US opioid crisis expressed their grief and anger as they testified on Tuesday against Purdue Pharma, the maker of the pain pill OxyContin which was ordered to pay billions by a judge ahead of its…
In Purdue Pharma, "I hope you feel guilty": dozens of victims of the opioids crisis in the United States were able to express themselves on Tuesday on the occasion of the conviction of the laboratory that created OxyContin, a highly addictive painkiller.
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