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(L to R) John Rothman as Mortimer Sackler, Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler, Sam Anderson as Raymond Sackler in Netflix's "Painkiller" (Keri Anderson/Netflix)

"Greedy evil" birthed the opioid crisis

D. Watkins
Purdue Pharma headquarters stands in downtown Stamford, April 2, 2019 in Stamford, Connecticut. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, are facing hundreds of lawsuits across the country for the company's alleged role in the opioid epidemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans over the past 20 years. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Victims of opioids stand to get nothing

Ryan Hampton
Purdue Pharma headquarters stands in downtown Stamford, April 2, 2019 in Stamford, Connecticut. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, are facing hundreds of lawsuits across the country for the company's alleged role in the opioid epidemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans over the past 20 years. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Purdue pleads guilty in opioid case

Matthew Rozsa
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, a democratic presidential candidate, prepares to speak during the U.S Conference of Mayors 88th Winter Meeting at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, January 22, 2020. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Bloomberg gave Sacklers PR help

Hannah Dreier - Common Dreams
Scientists doing research on desktop PC in a laboratory. (Getty Images)

Pushing docs to prescribe opioids

Matthew Rozsa
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Dollars for doctors

Hannah Fresques - ProPublica
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Purdue Pharma may become a public trust

David Herzberg - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Inside Purdue Pharma’s media playbook

David Armstrong - ProPublica
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The Sackler family, profiteers of death

Shira Tarlo
Patient with IV drip (Getty Images/iStock)

How opioid makers trick doctors

Dr. Gayle Woodson
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Purdue data doesn't tell the whole story

David Armstrong, Jeff Ernsthausen - ProPublica
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Why companies file for bankruptcy

Lindsey Simon - The Conversation
OxyContin pill bottles scattered in front of protestors of the opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Life in a "Dopesick" country

Chauncey DeVega
A man uses heroin under a bridge where he lives with other addicts in the Kensington section of Philadelphia which has become a hub for heroin use on January 24, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Opioid addicts on how they got addicted

Matthew Rozsa
FILE- In this Jan. 9, 2008 file photo, people move about the stairs leading to the front entrance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) (AP)

Fending off new Sackler money is easier

Terri Lynn Helge - The Conversation
A sign with some names of the Sackler family is displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Dirty money and museums

Rachel Leah
In this Feb. 16, 2017, photo, a discarded syringe sits in the dirt with other debris under a highway overpass where drug users are known to congregate in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (AP)

How bankruptcy would affect Purdue

Nicolas Paul Terry - The Conversation
Children walk by drug users passed out along a street in a South Bronx neighborhood which has the highest rate of heroin-involved overdose deaths in the city. (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Drug exec to profit off opioid treatment

Matthew Chapman - Alternet
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Opioid maker gets addiction drug patent

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Purdue Pharma downplayed opioid risk

Fred Schulte - KFF Health News
FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. Overdoses don't happen just to heroin addicts _ patients who legally use strong painkillers called opioids are at risk in the nation’s epidemic, too. A new study says when patients were prescribed an overdose antidote along with those medications, they made fewer painkiller-related visits to the emergency room. The study released on June 27, 2016, went a step further _ to see if the take-home antidote idea also could work for patients with chronic pain who may not realize they could accidentally get into trouble with prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin, Vicodin and others. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File) (AP)

Cashing in on OxyContin's dangers

Fred Schulte - KFF Health News

Washington City Sues

Charlie May
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