Purdue Pharma family protected from lawsuits in exchange for addiction treatment funding

Aneri Pattani: Yes, I think I have been hearing this from a lot of folks, where people have been waiting for this bankruptcy to move forward for a long time. Individual families want the money, right? I hear from grandparents who are raising their grandkids because their sons or daughters died of the opioid crisis.

Aneri Pattani:

Yes, I think I have been hearing this from a lot of folks, where people have been waiting for this bankruptcy to move forward for a long time.

Individual families want the money, right? I hear from grandparents who are raising their grandkids because their sons or daughters died of the opioid crisis. And those bills are coming in now, right, like the caring for them, their school, their health, whatever it is, families that are dealing with funeral costs for people who have died of overdoses, so they need the money now.

And then there — you talk about the governments that want to start addiction treatment programs or recovery housing. But, at the same time, the way this money is moving forward and actually getting out to people is by protecting the Sackler family from any personal responsibility.

And those same family members who want the money and the same communities that need it also feel like there should be some personal responsibility for what happened.

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