what i'm saying is that when we talk about opioid pain medicine worse since they talking about heroin pelz and 892 doctors john purdue gray and george frederick bingham started the per do frederick company on manhattan's lower east side and 1952 it was sold to 2 other doctors raymond and modem or 2nd in the intervening years they expanded the company to other states moving their headquarters to stanford connecticut and changing the name to produce for produce a private family many of them are doctors many that are philanthropists a lot of money billions but they are now i hear typical rich people yachts dating models things like that they're intellectual people they care about science cancer research on arts a 3rd brother dr arthur sackler revolutionized pharmaceutical advertising are there originated a blitz style marketing of drugs aimed at general practitioners through medical conventions as with well known doctor endorsements direct mailing and a sales force giving out free samples and perks. vallium for the response you know wand and trust there's 963 campaign for the new tranquilizer

many in australia and some in the catholic church said that this would give closure especially to pelz victims alleged victims and their families what does the high court's decision today do. well i mean it certainly overturns that hope and it basically. states that the burden of proof that was on docu series had not been met so what high court so there was a very serious possibility that an innocent person would be convicted this actually was. what the verdict says and for that reese and wright recently dowd still exist there for the conviction was thrown out so that they overturned the lower court's decisions and what me through this a little bit they were saying that the jury the court had made in a state school wrecked. what they actually said was very specifically that there were 3 very strong indications. accused her. story was not the full story and that there was actually enough of an opening for recent of all doubt so in a sense i mean this is sort of the 1st faked the perfect. so to say response or the perfect reaction in some way to sort of what we have heard a lot from the

prescription it's easy and we talk about opioid painkillers we are centrally talking about heroin pelz the drug companies are the cartel. doctors are the pushers and the pharmacists are the suppliers and that's how it is seen there is not a city in the united states right now that doesn't have a major opiate addiction problem and it's not just in cities it's in rural areas in fact in some places it's worse in rural areas than anywhere else at the peak of the epidemic millions of people in the united states were prescribed $259000000.00 prescriptions of opioids that means on average every adult is on one opiate you know once or twice a year if not more scares the living crap out of me opioids are a major category of medical spending according to the centers for disease control it's about. $24000000000.00 in direct cost for the medications and other $75000000000.00 in health care costs people are doing and oxycontin $8010.00 pack a day that's a $1000.00 worth of medication to kids who are spending hundreds of dollars a day if not thousands. of her own walked into. and it's cheap. really

for the work awaits pelz lawyers as a number of civil suits are seeking compensation for his alleged failure to protect children from tata files over many christians around the world this coming sunday will be an easter unlike any in living memory in countries with lock downs and stay at home orders people are left to celebrate with no church service is no family gatherings and no easter egg hunts for the children but wait who said that the easter bunny is also under lockdown through said that the easter bunny is an essential in these trying times our sources tonight tell us that peter cottontail may just be hopping down the money trail. you'll be placed in our that we do consider both the tooth fairy and the easter bunny to be essential lucas new zealanders obviously take their easter seriously so did the swiss where many of this year's batch of chocolate bunnies are dressed in protective masks that way they stay safe on their way to their customers mouths. this may look like a medical laboratory but it's an italian chocolate egg factory the owner has rolled with the new challenges

middle of the most important wheat in the catholic calendar when 1300000000 members celebrate easter if pelzconviction is or the turned he could walk free from prison within hours pell has continued to maintain his innocence but whatever the court decides its findings will be a significant bringing to an end a 5 year long legal saga that millions have been following across the world nicholas cage al-jazeera sydney. and let's take you through some of the headlines we're following here on al-jazeera now britain's prime minister barak's johnson has been admitted to hospital 10 days after testing positive for coded 19 his office says it was a precautionary measure because he still has symptoms he has more now from raleigh chalons in london you one of course anything connected to kobe 19 and a hospital admission is serious downing street is saying that this hospital admission for boris johnson is not because his condition has necessarily got any worse but it's because it has been going on now for so long it's persistent we are being told that boris johnson is still continuing to leave the country

sydney to 0 as the clock gauge is there were reasons that led to the court give for overturning couple pelz conviction. for one year since a jury found cardinal george pell guilty and one year since he was placed in jail he will be walking free 7 justices of a strictly as highest court ruled that tells child sex abuse convictions should be quashed and that he should be immediately released from victoria's barwon prison now because of coronavirus social distancing measures there was only a handful of people in court to hear this ruling it was posted online afterwards and the reasoning the court to gave was that the jury as well as the victorian court of appeal should have given more weight to the alibi evidence of witnesses who said that there wouldn't have been enough time for george pell abuse these 2 choir boys that he would have been other people with other people at the time that the prosecution alleges that these offenses took place and that should have planted a seed of reasonable doubt in the jury in the victorian court of appeal as to whether george pell was guilty or not now since

nicolas cage joins us now live from sydney declare what reasons to the court give for overturning couple pelz conviction. well after spending one year behind bars cardinal pell will walk free from prison a free man so it was only a short time ago that the high court of the strong ruled that the sexual abuse convictions of george pell should be overturned and that he should be immediately released from victoria's barwon prison now because of coronavirus social distancing measures there was only a handful of people in the course but the ruling by the 7 justices was unanimous in a posting on one a lengthy justice a lengthy. process i should say it said that the jury and the victorian court of appeal should have entertained doubt that these offenses ever occurred the reason why is because they say that. there was too much white placed on the evidence of the form a choir boy that these offenses did take place and not enough on alibi evidence from people who say that they wouldn't have been enough time for this to happen that other people would have been with george pell at the time that the prosec