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March 11, 2022

Victims' Families and Survivors of Opioids Epidemic Confront Sackler Family in Historic Hearing
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In a watershed event in the ongoing reckoning over the opioid crisis,
victims of the epidemic have directly confronted the Sackler family,
owners of Purdue Pharma. In a hearing Thursday as part of Purdue's
bankruptcy settlement, 26 people from 19 states shared with the Sacklers
the pain and tragedy they and their families faced because of addiction
to Oxy Contin. Ryan Hampton, opioids survivor, author, and activist
said, "I hope that every single victim's face haunts your every waking
moment and your sleeping ones, too. I hope you hear our names in your
dreams. I hope you hear the screams of the families who find their loved
ones dead on the bathroom floor. … You poisoned our lives and had the
audacity to blame us for dying."


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