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🗓️ 4 July 2023
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Mike Moore, the attorney who fought Big Tobacco, takes on Purdue and the Sacklers. State officials grapple with a potential settlement.
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0:00.0 | It's 2010 in Jackson, Mississippi. |
0:14.0 | It's after two in the morning and Mike Moore is speeding down a residential street driving |
0:19.0 | as fast as he can. |
0:20.8 | Moore grips the steering wheel as he turns a corner, trying to keep his eyes open, pushing |
0:25.6 | away a drunken feeling of fatigue. |
0:28.6 | Many minutes ago, Moore was lying in bed as sleep. |
0:31.8 | He was jolted awake by a phone call, and when he answered, he heard the panic voice |
0:36.3 | of his nephew's fiance. |
0:38.6 | She said that Moore's nephew had overdosed again. |
0:42.3 | Four years ago, Moore's nephew was prescribed an opioid to manage pain after he was wounded |
0:46.9 | by a gunshot. |
0:48.4 | He quickly became addicted to the medication and struggled through rehab. |
0:52.9 | But Moore has been sad to see that the treatment hasn't done much good. |
0:56.4 | His nephew hasn't been able to shake his addiction, and now he routinely buys black |
1:00.8 | market fentanyl, an opioid 100 times stronger than Moore's. |
1:05.4 | And more than once, he's overdosed. |
1:08.2 | So Moore has grown used to responding to these kind of emergencies. |
1:11.8 | And now, as he brings his car to a stop in front of his nephew's small house, he can see |
1:16.4 | there's no ambulance yet. |
1:18.2 | He's going to have to keep his nephew alive. |
1:24.2 | Moore throws open the front door and races into the living room, where he sees his 30-year-old |
1:28.6 | nephew pass out on the couch, his shirt soaked with vomit. |
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