week regarding one of the great american billionaire oligarchies class is the sackler family richard sackler he is the producer his family privately owned opioid producer oxy contin they make oxy code alone as well and here's the headline from the financial times opioid billionaire has patent for addiction treatment you know we have an opioid crisis here in america something like seventy thousand people overdose last year was just fifty two thousand the year before and well according to a new filing apparently billionaire pharmaceutical executive who has been blamed for spurring the u.s. opioid crisis stance to profit from the epidemic after he patented a new treatment for drug addicts richard sackler whose family owns produce pharma company behind the notorious painkiller oxycontin is granted a patent earlier this year for reformulation of a drug used to wean addicts off opioids you know as vertically integrated they get a bump on drugs and then they try to get him out drugs and they get him up on drugs and they try to get him off drugs like these junk food companies that also own like that