Opioid Crisis Grew Inside America’s Legal System
Opioid Crisis in the United States spread through legal medicine, weak oversight, and profit incentives before fentanyl flooded illicit markets.https://www.olamnews.com/health/3409/opioid-crisis-americas-legal-system/
Opioid Crisis Exposed Inside America’s Legal System
Opioid Crisis in America grew inside a legal medical system that prized sales, weak oversight, and delayed accountability for years.https://www.olamnews.com/health/3404/opioid-crisis-america-legal-system/
Ein Dokumentarfilm, der einmal nicht mit einem Skandal beginnt, sondern mit Nähe. Intimität einmal nicht als Pose, sondern als Überlebensstrategie. Dass Laura Poitras daraus einen politischen Film macht, ist keine Überraschung. Eher eine Konsequenz ihres gesamten Werks. Sie untersucht Macht als etwas, das sich in Menschen einschreibt. Hier porträtiert sie Nan Goldin, deren Werk und Leben untrennbar mit Intimität, Schmerz, Widerstand und Erinnerung verbunden ist. (ARTE, Neu!)
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The group of survivors – 75 people out of >82k who filed claims against the #BoyScouts – argued that #SCOTUS should have reopened the settlement in light of its decision last year in a similar legal dispute in involving #PurduePharma, the maker of the #opioid pain mediciation #OxyContin. In that case, a 5-4 majority rejected a bankruptcy agreement that would have shielded the #Sackler family from future lawsuits even though it made its fortune running the company.
A $7 Billion Opioid Reckoning, and Trump’s Defense of the Saudi Crown Prince
Judge to Approve Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy, Releasing Billions for Opioid Plaintiffs
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/health/purdue-sacklers-settlement.html
The deal is among the largest in a series of opioid settlements brought by state & local governments against drugmakers, wholesalers & pharmacies that totaled about $50 billion. It could close a long chapter — & maybe the entire book — on a legal odyssey over efforts to hold the company to account for its role in an #OpioidCrisis connected to 900,000 deaths in the U.S. since 1999, including deaths from #heroin & illicit #fentanyl.
The deal overseen by US Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane would require members of the #Sackler family who own the company to contribute up to $7 billion & give up ownership. The new agreement replaces one #SCOTUS rejected last year, finding it would have improperly protected members of the family against future lawsuits. The judge said he would explain his decision in a hearing Tuesday.
Judge says he'll approve opioid settlement with #OxyContin maker #Purdue & #Sackler family
A federal bankruptcy court judge on Friday said he will approve OxyContin-maker #PurduePharma’s latest deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of #opioids that includes some money for thousands of victims of the epidemic.
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https://apnews.com/article/purdue-pharma-bankruptcy-sackler-settlement-a8c9ae5427b3195096aec8d54b17a054?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-14-Breaking+News
A federal bankruptcy court judge on Friday said he will approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma’s latest deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids that includes some money for thousands of victims of the epidemic. The deal overseen by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane would require members of the Sackler family who own the company to contribute up to $7 billion and give up ownership. The new agreement replaces one the U.S. Supreme Court rejected last year, finding it would have improperly protected members of the family against future lawsuits. The judge said he would explain his decision in a hearing on Tuesday.
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