Opioid crisis victims to confront Purdue Pharma's owners
FILE - Pill Mann" made by Frank Huntley of Worcester, Mass., from his opioid prescription pill bottles, is displayed during a protest by advocates for opioid victims outside the Department of Justice, on Dec. 3, 2021, in Washington. Many families left heartbroken by opioid overdoses and addictions have been waiting for years to be able to tell another family – the Sacklers – about the damage their company, Purdue Pharma, did.
Appearing only via audio was Richard Sackler, the former Purdue president and board chair who has said the company and family bear no responsibility for the opioid crisis, and also a son of Raymond Sackler, one of the three brothers who in the 1950s bought the company that became Purdue Pharma. Also attending on video were Theresa Sackler, wife of the late Mortimer D. Sackler, another of the brothers; and David Sackler, Richard Sackler’s son.
The hearing is to last two hours. Drain said members of the Sackler family and others will not be given a chance to respond to the statements from the group of victims selected to speak by lawyers for creditors in the case. Some of the victims are addressing the Sacklers from a law office in New York; others will be at their homes in communities across the U.S.
Sackler family members have expressed regret for the crisis, but they’ve never offered an unequivocal apology. The overall settlement, which still requires actions by multiple courts to take effect, provides more than $150 million for Native American tribes and over $100 million for medical monitoring and payments for children born in withdrawal from opioids.
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