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Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a protest on September 12, 2019 outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, over their recent controversial opioid settlement. Participants dropped hundreds prescription bottles of OxyContin while holding tombstones with the names of opioids casualties and banners reading "Shame on Sackler" and "200 Dead Each Day". (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Biden quiet on opioid settlements

Aneri Pattani - KFF Health News
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
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Purdue Pharma may become a public trust

David Herzberg - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Douglas Healey/Getty Images/Salon)

The Sackler family, profiteers of death

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

How opioid makers trick doctors

Dr. Gayle Woodson
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
Howard Schultz; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Michael Bloomberg (AP/Richard Drew/Elise Amendola/Getty/Scott Eisen)

A pox on billionaire candidates

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Phillip Smith - Alternet
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