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Supreme Court blocks $6 billion opioid settlement that would have given the Sackler family immunity | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

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Ok, still a ways to go before celebration, but we're trending in the right direction. So, I'm choosing optimism.

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[–] Wirrvogel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just for a comparison:

Fatal opioid overdoses and opioid use disorder cost the United States $1.02 trillion in 2017. The most complete accounting to date of America’s opioid crisis was released by CDC in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Costs for spending on health care, opioid use disorder treatment, criminal justice, and lost work productivity, as well as estimates of cost for lost quality of life and lives lost were computed in this study.

And they have the audacity to say how much these $6 billion will help and how dare to delay that help. That's less than a drop in the ocean.