Opioid Epidemic
Undermining Medicaid would gut substance abuse programs and leave clinics struggling for funds.
The Sacklers, the family behind OxyContin, allegedly wired around a billion dollars to their own bank accounts while defending their role in the opioid crisis.
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has settled a consolidated lawsuit accusing the company and the Sackler family of being responsible for the opioid crisis.
Hundreds of children have been removed from their opioid-addicted parents.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Purdue Pharmaceuticals is involved in over 2,000 lawsuits related to more than 400,000 overdose deaths in the last 20 years.
Judge Thad Balkman ordered the health care company to pay $572 million.
More than a fifth of those grandparents are poor.
It's an effort to treat mental illness as a public health crisis, and it's way different from what Trump has been doing.
“We have given marijuana the status of medicine with none of the standards.”
“We’re not trying to scare them. We just want to save a few lives.”