the drug and still were aggressively marketing. >> this is the claim in many lawsuits that the family and the company are now facing and that is why the company wants to keep all of these documents under wrap. the family owns purdue pharma and estimated worth of $13 billion. in 2017 there are more than 47,000 opioid linked drug fatalities in the u.s. members of the sackler family were paid more than $4 billion between 2008 and 2016. the other piece of the story says the journal saw unredacted documents in the case is that sales as they slumped purdue pharma looked for new ways to make money.