{"id":70995,"date":"2025-01-24T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T08:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70995"},"modified":"2025-01-24T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T08:12:15","slug":"sackler-family-to-pay-6-5-billion-for-their-role-in-fueling-opioid-epidemic-which-has-killed-hundreds-of-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/24\/sackler-family-to-pay-6-5-billion-for-their-role-in-fueling-opioid-epidemic-which-has-killed-hundreds-of-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Sackler family to pay $6.5 billion for their role in \u2018fueling\u2019 opioid epidemic which has killed hundreds of thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/BB1p0tIu.img?w=768&amp;h=512&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The Supreme Court overturned the settlement and bankruptcy deal the Sackler family had struck with Purdue Pharma last year (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/purdue-pharma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Purdue Pharma<\/a>, the makers and marketers of the highly addictive opioid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/oxycontin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">OxyContin<\/a>, and the family that owned the company, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/sackler-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Sackler family<\/a>, have agreed to pay $7.4 billion to individuals, states<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/sackler-family-to-pay-6-5-billion-for-their-role-in-fueling-opioid-epidemic-which-has-killed-hundreds-of-thousands\/ar-AA1xKhjP?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=a078009e4e72497bb1c024c81bf0a353&amp;ei=23\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Purdue Pharma, the makers and marketers of the highly addictive opioid\u00a0OxyContin, and the family that owned the company, the\u00a0Sackler family, have agreed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/opioid-prevention-1-scaled.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70996,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70995\/revisions\/70996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}