12/16/2018: Taking Aim at Opioids, Plastic Plague
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Plastic has become a problem in the Pacific Ocean -- and it is killing wildlife. Sharyn Alfonsi introduces us to the 24-year-old inventor -- who has a controversial plan to clean up the Pacific Garbage Patch. The attorney who orchestrated a multi-billion-dollar settlement against the tobacco industry is back for the drug manufacturers and distributors -- who he says are responsible for the opioid epidemic. Bill Whitaker has his story on tonight's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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| 0:32.9 | The opioid overdoses have increased in the last, you know, 18 months have gone up. |
| 0:42.0 | Mike Moore helped engineer the historic 1998 settlement under which big tobacco had to pay out billions. |
| 0:50.4 | Now he's taking on opioid manufacturers and distributors. |
| 0:54.9 | If we want a verdict against these manufacturers and distributors, it could bankrupt them. |
| 0:59.5 | They put them out of business. |
| 1:00.8 | Tonight, you'll hear evidence against the industry, which Moore calls damning. |
| 1:06.1 | He believes a jury will too. |
| 1:08.8 | You know what those jurors are going to do? |
| 1:10.4 | They're going to go in the back room. |
| 1:11.6 | They're going to spend about 30 minutes thinking about it. |
| 1:13.6 | Going to come back out. |
| 1:14.7 | Bam. |
| 1:18.6 | Take a look around. |
| 1:20.1 | Odds are you're surrounded by plastic. |
| 1:22.8 | That water bottle we use once and throw away will be with us for generations. |
| 1:26.9 | By 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. |
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