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It's important to note that in historical examples of these settlements, the money was us d as a slush fund.
When tobacco did their settlement, it was used for stuff like schools and toads, then taxes were cut instead. Resulting in no increase in funding then when the settlement money ran out, they were broke. In some cases the settlement money was even used to pay for tobacco infrastructure (auction houses and such).
Can't remember if it was Oliver or Stewart, but one of them did a show/segment on it recently.
And that's not even getting into the settlement didn't touch any of the Sacker money directly.
And the company 100% knew that extended release wouldn't work the same on everyone, some people would be pretty much guaranteed to become addicts if they followed their prescriptions. They'd just naturally metabolize it too fast.
But they made more money. So they pushed XR to doctors and patients while hiding the fact that it was dangerous.
They need to be in jail, which won't happen. But we can at least fuck their personal blood money up.
It was Oliver.