Quotes About Opioid

The Committee on Oversight and Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives announced that it would hold a hearing on "The Role of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family in the Opioid Epidemic

opioid crisis is, among other things, a parable about the awesome capability of private industry to subvert public institutions.

A hedge fund, Hildene Capital Management, which had invested some of the family's wealth, said that it was no longer comfortable doing business with the Sacklers. Brett Jefferson, the fund's manager, revealed that someone close to the firm had suffered an "opioid-related tragedy," and said, "My conscience led me to terminate the relationship." Even Purdue's banker, JPMorgan Chase, cut ties with the company.

It was now in the grip of a full-blown opioid epidemic. Millions of Americans had become addicted to OxyContin and other opioids, whether they had done so through recreational abuse or under a doctor's care. Indeed, whatever the Sacklers might have wanted to tell themselves about their own intentions and the nature of the business they were in, this large population of addicted people was part of the reason that Purdue's sales were still so strong. The numbers didn't lie.

But Purdue was a privately held company entirely owned by Kathe Sackler and other members of her family. In 1996, Purdue had introduced a groundbreaking drug, a powerful opioid painkiller called OxyContin, which was heralded as a revolutionary way

After consulting with the hospital they administered the opioid antidote drug, Narcan.