{"id":19563,"date":"2022-03-04T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T13:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19563"},"modified":"2022-03-04T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T13:41:47","slug":"sacklers-agree-to-6-billion-purdue-bankruptcy-settlement-over-opioid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19563","title":{"rendered":"Sacklers agree to $6 billion Purdue bankruptcy settlement over opioid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Ed Silverman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sackler family members who own Purdue Pharma have agreed to pay up to $6 billion to settle a hotly contested bankruptcy plan, which will allow state governments and tens of thousands of people to be compensated for the company\u2019s role in the opioid crisis.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2022\/03\/03\/sackler-purdue-opioid-bankruptcy-oxycontin\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2022\/03\/03\/sackler-purdue-opioid-bankruptcy-oxycontin\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"21\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for STAT) The Sackler family members who own Purdue Pharma have agreed to pay up to $6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19564,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19563\/revisions\/19564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}