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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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- Opioid Talks Fail, Purdue Bankruptcy Filing Expected
(Score: 3, Insightful) by sjames on Monday September 23 2019, @08:39AM
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.