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Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits

posted by janrinok on Saturday September 21 2019, @10:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the they-must-be-on-drugs dept.

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Sacklers threaten to scrap opioid deal if they aren't shielded from lawsuits

Lawyers for OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma filed a new complaint late Wednesday threatening that the company's mega-rich owners, the Sackler family, could pull out of a proposed multi-billion-dollar opioid settlement deal if a bankruptcy judge doesn't shield the family from outstanding state lawsuits.

Purdue's lawyers argue that if the lawsuits continue, the Sacklers will have to waste "hundreds of millions of dollars" on legal costs that could otherwise go to claimants in the settlement. The family's lawyers added that in that event, the family "may be unwilling—or unable—to make the billions of dollars of contributions" to the proposed settlement.

State attorneys general, however, argue that the tactic is yet another move designed to shield the Sacklers and their ill-gotten wealth.

"This filing isn't a surprise. It's yet another effort by Purdue to avoid accountability and shield the Sackler family fortune, and we will be opposing it," Maura Healey, the attorney general of Massachusetts, told the New York Times.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday September 22 2019, @12:48PM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 22 2019, @12:48PM (#897090) Journal

    The "just tough it out crowd" either haven't experienced anything like truly severe pain (they felt a 3/10 but thought it was a 10) or they haven't had to endure it long.

    There's other options too. They might simply be more badass than you, a true ITG. Or not feel pain as strongly. A 10 to you might be a 7 or 8 to them.

    Good pain management including opioids will improve healing and in some cases may make the difference between recovery or succumbing. Pain induces stress which reduces the ability to heal and weakens the immune system.

    I think this is a very good point.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by sjames on Monday September 23 2019, @08:39AM

    by sjames (2882) on Monday September 23 2019, @08:39AM (#897468) Journal

    No amount of badass is going to prevent the blackout. It will happen even if you can "mind over matter" yourself into not being fully (or at all) conscious of the pain. A good dose of adrenaline due to a true fight or flight situation may delay it, but eventually the adrenaline will stop, blood pressure drops, shock sets in, and down you go.

    If you are physiologically less sensitive to pain, then you are EXPERIENCING LESS pain. That is, the same that would on average cause 10/10 pain will make you experience 7/10. If you get to 10/10, down you go.