and richard sackler writes back: "abusers aren't the victims; they are the victimisers."ell you, every time i read this email it's hard to read, it's hard to stomach that someone would write about people who are suffering, people who are in real distress and people who have died. we are learning more about a former football star found dead in an apparent drug overdose, last friday in scottsdale... i am angry, that the world lost a really wonderful person. and i am angry that his daughter has to grow up without a father, and i am angry that i don't get to hug my son. this is wherejill hernandez came to watch her son brock grow up every weekend. this field brings back a lot of memories. he just lived for being on the field. that's brock, number 22, when he was 13 years old. he was just a gifted athlete — basketball, baseball, football. football was his passion. he was such a good player and he gave his heart every single game. there were injuries every year, if not every season, for whatever he was playing. and sometimes that led to a broken bone, a surgery, you know, screw

i presume somewhere richard sackler in the dark of night knew what he was doing was wrong. we learned how for the banks they were too big to fail in 2008— 2009. well, some of these fighter surgical companies, it feels like they're just too big to care. in total, 48 states have now filed lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies for their role in the opioid crisis. new york is in the midst of a crisis, a crisis that has ravaged our communities and families. a crisis that is claiming lives young and old all across our state and our nation. a crisis that we firmly believe that was created and perpetuated by the manufacturers and perpetuated by the manufacturers and distributors of opioid drugs. today we are suing the giant, the pharma law that created 0xycontin. we believe the sackler family has contributed to the death and devastation in indiana and across this country. i'm complaint alleges that purdue pharma knew as early as the 1990s knew that one of the drugs, 0xycontin, was among the most abused opioids in the country. this contains detailed allegations about the sackler

. >> i presume somewhere richard sackler in the dark of night knew what he was doing was wrg, but therewas just to much money to be made. and i think for me, we learn how r the banks, they were too big to fail in 2008, 2009. well, some of ese pharmaceutical companies, it feels like they are too big to care. reporter: in total, 48 states have filed lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies for their role in the ioid crisis. purdue pharma sent this statement to the bbc. >> i am starting to get concerned that all of this attention paid on this one family is missing the role played by other pharmaceutical companies that did exactly what purdue and the sacklers did, and we are also missing some of the failures of our regulatory agencies, federal agencies, fate agencies, all of the problems that neing. if we blame this all on the sacklers and their greed, i'm worried we will not address these other failures.re rter: one of the greatest failures of all is that the hopes and dreams of so many children have been shattered by this epidemic. >> i cannot even imagine what they are living through. j