The #Sackler deal, in brutal #arithmetic
#Deaths
#500,000+ #Americans died from #opioid overdoses since #OxyContin launched in #1996.
That’s roughly:
1. one Vietnam War
2. every year
3. for two decades
This is not abstract harm. It is #mass #casualty scale.
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The money
• Sackler family payout: ~$5–6 billion spread over #10+ years
• Estimated Sackler family wealth before the deal: #$11–13 #billion
• Wealth retained after the deal: #billions
Translation:
They paid less than half of what they were worth, slowly, while keeping legal immunity.