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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton adds billions to the trust
Published March 17, 2021 •
Updated on March 17, 2021 at 1:53 pm
NBC 5 News
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that Purdue Pharma filed its estimated $7 billion bankruptcy plan, which places the value of the company into a trust set up to allocate funds toward opioid abatement efforts across the nation. For years, my office has aggressively worked to hold Purdue Pharma accountable for its reckless contributions to the opioid crisis, Paxton said. Countless lives have been destroyed and derailed by the nationwide opioid crisis, but today s bankruptcy plan is a sustainable, transparent solution with necessary accountability measures in place.
The Silent Epidemic: The Growing Threat of Fentanyl in Southern California
When Gail Smith lost her son to a drug overdose in 2016, she joined an Orange County club of which nobody wants to be a member.
“My son Kenny died of an accidental overdose of heroin mixed with fentanyl,” Smith told The Epoch Times. “We were told that there was enough fentanyl to kill 10 elephants.”
Smith’s story is familiar to an increasing number of families and friends throughout Southern California who have lost a loved one to an accidental overdose of fentanyl one of the most powerful opiates ever to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).