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What Next: The Supreme Court Takes On Opioids

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Sacklers were set to pay $6 billion in exchange for immunity from any future lawsuits over their role in the opioid crisis. But the Supreme Court will now decide whether bankruptcy law can be wielded in this manner to protect the very wealthy—and trump the very-American right to sue for damages. Guest: Brian Mann, reporter on addiction at NPR. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:06.0

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0:11.0

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0:12.0

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0:15.2

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0:19.4

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0:22.8

don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest

0:25.4

this is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong This week something unusual happened, a settlement worth billions of dollars, vaulted out of lowly bankruptcy court and ended up in front of the highest court in the land.

0:49.0

Did you expect this settlement with the Sacklers about opioids to go all the way to the Supreme Court?

0:56.0

Absolutely not.

0:58.0

Brian Mann is a reporter at NPR.

1:01.0

He's been following this whole bankruptcy saga. It's all about

1:04.0

opioids, specifically how much money the billionaire Sackler family owes to victims

1:08.8

of the overdose crisis. The Sacklers famously ran Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin.

1:15.0

It's Purdue that filed for bankruptcy here.

1:18.0

But when that happened, the Sackler family was able to arrange a side deal

1:22.0

by contributing billions of dollars to treat and prevent addiction,

1:26.0

they were able to avoid personal liability for their role,

1:30.0

getting America hooked on painkillers.

1:35.0

The Supreme Court is set to decide.

1:37.0

Can they actually do that?

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