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Supreme Court blocks $6 billion opioid settlement that would have given the Sackler family immunity | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Late2TheParty to c/upliftingnews

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Ok, still a ways to go before celebration, but we're trending in the right direction. So, I'm choosing optimism.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just for a comparison:

Fatal opioid overdoses and opioid use disorder cost the United States $1.02 trillion in 2017. The most complete accounting to date of America’s opioid crisis was released by CDC in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Costs for spending on health care, opioid use disorder treatment, criminal justice, and lost work productivity, as well as estimates of cost for lost quality of life and lives lost were computed in this study.

And they have the audacity to say how much these $6 billion will help and how dare to delay that help. That's less than a drop in the ocean.

[–] BaronVonBort 16 points 1 year ago

I think that’s the thing that got me - the spokesperson’s response. “They are withholding help…” like yeah from the damage that your company (and the family who ran it) inflicted and is trying to escape any actual responsibility from.

I hope that they reverse the immunity. I don’t hold much hope from this court but I can light a candle for this one.

[–] Mr_Blott -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Devil's advocate -

Cost the United States $1.02 trillion

*Has been valued at $1.02 trillion by medical companies but is probably about $4 million to be fair 😂

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[–] BeMoreCareful 2 points 1 year ago

They probably account for how much people would have added to the GDP without their premature deaths.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Rehab costs about $30k for 28 days. As if the hundreds of thousands of deaths and overdoses per year weren't enough. Suboxone is $700+ per month just for the pills, not including seeing the doctor monthly and random drug tests. Methadone's not cheap either. Then there's secondary health issues like sepsis, MRSA, HIV, hepatitis, heart problems, pregnancy issues, withdrawal, DUI injuries/deaths etc.

The list goes on and on and on and on. I wouldn't be surprised if a trillion barely covered it.