The Sackler family name is now inextricably linked to the crisis of opioid addiction that has the US in a stranglehold. The family headed up Purdue Pharma, maker of the painkiller OxyContin.
In return for the shield, the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma are committed to paying up to $6 billion to help compensate communities and individuals for the ravages of the opioid epidemic.
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