told reporters this is essentially a crime family drug dealers and nice suits and dresses what purdue pharma in the sackler family have done to society through their aggressive peddling of opioids is unconscionable and that's all you're profiting off of what is clearly and i think what's right why i think these of these cities have a really smart legislative ground to stand on is that they have spent a lot of money trying to stop this you know we should be paying for the produce arm but also how much does it cost us as a society as well. there's so much to be trillion could be five hundred thousand dollars a year because you're also talking about taking all these be able bodied people who are now addicted to opioids out of like the workforce out of society because they are so screwed you know they're so screwed up because of these guys pushing doctors to overprescribe it and i kind of i will say i do think that a lot of this responsibility also has to fall back on the doctors to oh if it's one thing we can blame big pharma all day long they're guilty but we also have to look at the doctors t

they include the children of the two deceased brothers mortimer and raymond sack were developed purdue pharma mortimer and launched oxy cotton back in the mid ninety's also named in the suit are teresa and beverly sackler the two brothers wives i just mentioned these eight ten members have served or have observed the board of purdue pharma. magazine estimates that a core group of twenty sackler is the meat mortimer and raymond branch of the sackler family including the eight that are under this litigation collectively worth get this thirteen billion dollars saying this is why so man call them here is an american art photographer almost died from an addiction to oxycontin and is now in recovery and she told the guardian that i'm sick of these people behind the scenes controlling companies and getting away with murder while their faces are never shown and she's right why do you get to make thirty billion dollars off of the suffering of this nation off of people you've ruined families you're going over to china to try to bring. and opioid two. that's terrifying to do but in this event it's like

new york are considering charges of fraud and racketeering against the sacklers, whose company purdue pharma produces the prescription painkiller oxycontin. earlier this year, "the new york times" reported purdue executives knew oxycontin was highly addictive as early as 1996, the first year after the drug hit the market, but still promoted it as less addictive than other opioids. a lead attorney taking on purdue pharma, paul hanly, said of the sacklers -- "this is essentially a crime family -- drug dealers in nice suits and dresses." the sacklers are known worldwide for their patronage of the arts. and the sackler name appears on museum exhibitions including the met in new york and the tate in london. "the washington post" is reporting white house senior adviser and presidential daughter ivanka trump used a personal email account and private email servers to send hundreds of messages to cabinet officials and aides in violation of federal records rules. ivanka reportedly sent the emails through a domain name she shared with her husband, jared kushner, who's also a senior white house adviser.

he is also aware or becomes aware of the fact one pharmaceutical company, purdue pharma is pushing these prescriptions under the argument it should be the pain thresholds we need to be conscious of leaving the patients and no pain i have the perfect way for you to handle that doctor. so he is alarmed of the practices of this pharmaceutical company and tell us about that story and how that turned out. >> he starts to write them letters saying what i said before we have people we have crime on the scale i have never seen and i have been practicing for decades and you need to take this drug off the market and reformulated it to be of use resistant like had been done years earlier and they would not do it. actually wrote them a letter early 2000 to say my fear is that the distressed communities that now have rising drug crime and even murders on a scale they have never had before our fentanyl areas for this epidemic much the way like hiv. he was so prescient and what i met him for the first time in 2016, he said of that letter i knew when it was just a bunch of poor people mountains and dyin

among those initially named in the suit, purdue pharma, the named opioid provider. she said they sold and shipped unreasonable quantities of opioids into florida, bondi claiming the pharmacy giants also failed to stop suspicious orders of opioids they receive. a cvs spokesman tells nbc in part the lawsuit is without merit and that the company complies wall federal and sat laws for dispensing of controlled substance prescriptions, adding, we also have stringent policies to prevent abuse. walgreen's says it does not comment on pending lawsuits. the suit claims since 2006, walgreen's dispenses billions of opioid doses from its florida retail pharmacies and cvs some 700 million doses between 2006 and 2014. in recent years, according to the cdc, opioid-related deaths hitting an all-time high. in 2016, every single day more than 115 million americans died of opioid overdoses. in florida 15 deaths a day. for "today," kerry sanders, nbc news, ft. lauderdale. >>> a new drug designed to lessen the potentially life-threatening exposure to peanuts may soon be available. the stu

among those named in the suit, purdue far pharma, the maker of oxycontin. the alleged complaint says that wa and cvs, sold unreasonable amounts ofds opi into florida. and that they failed to stop orders they received. t cvs says the lawsuit is without merit and that the company complies with all federal and state laws. adding, we have stringent policies to prevent abuse.s walgreens dot comment on pending lawsuits. the suit claims that walgreens suspensed billions of opioid do doses from itpharmacies. in recen years, according to the cdc, opdeid-related hs, hitting an all-time high. in 2016, every, sine y, more than 115 americans tied from opioid overdoses. in florida, 15 deaths a day. for "today," kerry sanders, nbc news, ft. lauderdale. >>> good news may be on the way for millions of americans with peanut allergies. a new drug meant to lessen the severity of peanut exposure may soon be available. a trial was published on sunday. by the end, most were able to digest two w peanutshout having a reaction. if the drug were approved by the fda it coulde on t mar

it is easy to blame the pharma companies. . am suing purdue i think it is the right thing to do. but i cannot just blame them because they don't write the scripts. the doctors do it. it is not like we get paid for prescribing. respect you have sincere intentions in this, but it is missing an important part of the picture. this is blaming the for mr. nichols. e but i want to give you a historical example. from, inn, where i'm the 18th century, loads of people were driven out of the countryside into these disgusting urban slums, like manchester in london. there was an outbreak of something called the gin craze. it was an enormous outbreak of alcoholism. there was a famous painting from the time, a woman downing a bottle of gin while her baby falls out the window. look at what happened at the time. what people said was look at this evil drug, jen and these people who peddle this. if only we could stop these evil and go away.crisis now when we look back on it, we cannot -- we know it cannot be gin. anyone can buy it and while we have optimism, we don't have massive alcoholism and peo