15 States Reach Settlement With Purdue Pharma Over Opioid Addiction Crisis

1. Lol big deal if they made much more than that. Crime pays, as usual in America

2. This was a horrible med the side effects from it.

3. Yeah! When are we going to get are money?

4. This was all preCovid. The FDA guy approved it, then went to work ($400k) for Purdue – are we being deceived now thru false advertising, skillful sales reps, dark $$, etc??

5. Why is it when the big law suit come out it is not the people that are effected that win but the politicians that sue the big business and win.. no reoperations for those who's life's have been torn up.. But plenty of money to send the movers and shakers kids to the south of France for spring break..

6. Dopesick is a new show on Hulu that portraits all this mess! They just move money from one place to another to make us feel better. The big issue is still there and it will always be. To control the masses you must provide them DRUGS and alcohol, make them as much in big debt as possible and with the lowest education! That way, stupid poor drug addict, is less one to vote!

7. Money….Money…Modern hunter-gathers…we will never pass to the next level of evolution while money is around…the powerful will continue to use the TRIDENT ( drugs, big debt and poor education ) on our backs preventing us to be great! Maybe someone came up with THE IDEA that would make the click soon but to overthrow this complex system only with a sudden stop otherwise will take centuries to surpass…

8. So, ppl only ever overdose on opioids prescribed to them – never on illegally obtained opioids? Aha, that explains 2020 pro-non-prescription fentanyl riots.

9. Obviously I'm in the minority but this certainly doesn't bode well for those of us with chronic pain and don't abuse it who actually need medication, it has already gotten difficult.

10. That’s messed up the people suffered but the government gets the settlement money they’ll give the victims a voucher for 10% off your groceries at ALDI

11. Are prisons converting to treatment centers lol. They should but I don't believe this guy lol. Thanks for the propaganda.

12. Ok. Here is an example of "healing" I drive drunk and run you over, disabling you. I am rich and influential so I am not prosecuted. I keep most my money. You get nothing but I pay for treatment over 9 years. HOW WOULD YOU FEEL? Thank God the DOJ and Conn AG Tong see it for what it is.

13. leave chronic pain sufferers alone!

14. From $ 2.2 trillion estimated by 50 states to $4.5 billion for 15 ? That's less than 2% of the total estimated costs that the states have had to bear over the last 20 odd years.

    What did the US govt gain by doing this ? They wiped out their highly skilled manufacturing workforce in these states to pander to low cost Chinese manufactured goods, snuffed out any sort of organized dissent & protest by flooding the mkt with the worst drugs of all, and ensured cheap credit was available to ppl who wouldn't have had the means to buy these China mfgd goods at the scale necessary otherwise. Mfgd in factories that they owned jointly in China.

15. CNN? WHERE DID YOU DIG UP THIS BEANHEAD? You act like victims are lucky the Sacklers have billions. WHAT ABOUT THE VICTIMS? BILLIONS GO TO STATES. VICTIMS DO NOT BENEFIT FROM SACKLERS KEEPING 10 BILLION. THE SACKLERS WIN. U R DUMB OR BOUGHT & PAID FOR Like JUDGE ROBERT "DRAIN THE LITTLE GUY" I EXPECT BETTER FROM CNN

16. I believe addiction to opioids became a social cancer and this was manipulated by Purdue to increase their business and become the leading profit making drug cartel in the US woth the blessings of the horrible amount of holes that exist in this country. I hope one day to see the Penal responsibility. America needs to go to rehab and also remove itself of the opioids of Gerrymander, the opioids of Colt Armalite with the AR15 and related, the opioids of Denying History to hide the horrible truth that generations after, we still are fighting the civil war, the opioids of the Imperially rich oil companies that prevent us from going forward in important generally important aspects of relaying in mass transportation systems like trains, free of contamination. The opioids of Oil companies that pay the republican party to manipulate climate change reality.

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18. Unbelievable that this family of drug dealers goes free because they are a corporate entity. There will literally never be enough money to compensate the surviving children families and communities destroyed by such wonton disregard for life in the pursuit of the all mighty dollar. This is yet another reason. We the people of this country have a hard time trusting doctors, and the health system. Every one has a price and for most state officials the price was our mothers, fathers, children our futures and our communities. Another reason to overturn decisions like citizen United.

    How can corporate entities that literally effect millions , if not billions, of people lives in a variety of ways, be given the rights of a human being, whose whole fundamental existence is designed on the singular bottom line of profit over everything; Its employees, its consumers, its business manufacturing and logistic partners.
    The ERA has yet to be ratified, still. According to the Supreme Court and our leaders a corporation has the guaranteed rights of an American Citizen, while women still do not have Equal Rights. WTF? AND while the Sacklers and Purdue pharma has reached havoc on people's lives, the medical treatments that WE as TAX payers will end providing the sacklers will continue their wealthy lifestyle. They will continue receiving their dividends. They will keep the majority of their property while people died. And continue to die.
    That corporation gets to continue. BOTTOM LINE: if this was not a corporation there would be Someone accountable, that person or persons would be in prison. They received all the perks of a living citizen WITHOUT any responsibility or accountability. How is thus justice?

19. Big Pharma will never be held accountable, they'll just pay a fine that they can easily pay

20. So hush bribe money is legalized by the Federal government only for wealthy corporations and your state governor has accepted this bribe. I would sue my state for accepting bribe money from a known criminal to drop charges.

21. I've never seen a pharmaceutical company that writes prescription , the government will never hold the true people that are the responsible ones the doctors and the Healthcare provider.

22. Just yesterday morning as I was hunting artifacts behind my cousin's house all of a sudden police come out of the woodwork. I went running to the house and charged in. I inquired as I'm forcing my way in if it was my cousin who I'm very close to as police are attempting to hold me back and they say yes. I busted through all of them and look and it's not my cousin but the body of his 18 year old girlfriend's son lying on the floor in his bedroom dead of an apparent overdose. I was guilt stricken thinking it just happened as I've got many years of EMS experience and he's so young. All I kept saying was I could have done something, I could have done something as I was no more than 50 yards away. Later I was informed he probably died about 4 hours prior. This is not the first person I know whose promisong life has been cut short because of the epidemic originally caused by big pharma and their greed for profit. The blood is on their hands and no amount of money will wash them clean.
    RIP D.

23. We love Morgan

24. They will never bring back the people I ache for every day. We desperately need trauma therapists

25. Making harder for mature adults & elderly who need them almost daily in small amounts & never abuse them & can't do Cannabis!.

26. Why weren’t any members of the Sackler family not imprisoned yet all the other people who were affected by this family imprisoned? Just another example of our two tiered justice system 😢

27. Nothing for the victims, just money for the pockets of the politicians.

28. “You might not get back to the way you were before addiction”, in my experience, I gained so much perspective from a decade of addiction, that I’m actually a better person now

29. we are the goon squad and we're comin' to town… beep… beep…

30. In West Virginia its called a crisis when the crack epidemic hit LA its was called an epidemic

31. This is weird the real issue should be doctors giving the people drugs not the actual drug companies they don't control where the drugs end up!

32. a) Asma, the first daughter of Hz. Abu Bakr, was born in 595, twenty-seven years before the Migration. (24) She was married to Zubayr ibn Awwam during the Migration of the Messenger of Allah and she was six months pregnant that day. In other words, she was twenty-seven years old. (25) Three months later, she gave birth to her son, Abdullah, in Quba while she was migrating to Madinah. She died in 73 H when she was one hundred years old and when she still had her original teeth.
    The age difference between Hz. Aisha and her sister Asma is ten. (26) Accordingly, it becomes clear that Hz. Aisha was born in 605 (595 + 10 = 605) and her age during the Migration was 17 (27-10 = 17). Since her marriage took place seven months after the Migration (27), it means that the age of Hz. Aisha passed seventeen and was close to eighteen at that time. If we accept that she got married in the month of Shawwal immediately after the Battle of Badr, it is necessary to accept that she completed the age of eighteen then.
    b) Another point that attracts attention here is the age difference between Hz. Aisha and her full brother Abdurrahman. As it is known, Abdurrahman is Hz. Abu Bakr's eldest son and he became a Muslim after the Treaty of Hudaybiyya. Abdurrahman avoided confronting his father at the Battle of Badr; he was twenty years old then. (28) Accordingly, he must have been born in 604. In a community where the age difference between siblings is usually one or two, it is very unlikely for a sibling whose elder brother was born in 604 to be born in 614 and for two siblings to have an age difference of ten years; besides, there is no evidence to support it.
    8. The narrations about the year of death of Hz. Aisha also reinforce this view. For, different years (55, 56, 57, 58 or 59 H) and different ages (sixty-five, sixty-six, sixty-seven or seventy-four) are mentioned about the time of her death. (30) This shows that there is no definite acceptance about the year of her death just like her birth.
    In the narration stating that she died in 58 H at the age of 74 years old, her day of death is mentioned as Wednesday; it is also stated that her date of death corresponded to the seventeenth night of the month of Ramadan, that she was buried at night in the Cemetery of Baqi after the witr prayer upon her will, that her janazah prayer was led by Abu Hurayra, and that she was placed in the grave by her sister Asma's two sons Abdullah and Urwa, her brother Muhammad’s two sons Qasim and Abdullah her brother Abdurrahman’s son Abdullah (31); this narration has more details than others, which gives the impression that this information is stronger than the others. Thus, if we make a calculation based on this date, we see that she lived forty-eight more years after the death of the Prophet (48 + 10 = 58 + 13 = 71 + 3 = 74), which means she was born three years before the prophethood.
    In that case, it is understood that on the day of her marriage, she was seventeen years and seven months old (74 -48 = 26-9 = 17 + 7 months).
    In addition to the information above, the fact that she was in the battlefront on the day of Uhud, when even boys who wanted to fight were rejected (32), her deepness in religious (fiqh) issues, her mature attitude and statements in the face of the Incident of Ifk, the age difference between her and Hz. Fatima, her detailed knowledge about the Migration and the incidents that took place later, that her  marriage took place after her father brought it forward and after mahr was determined (33), the position of the Prophet as a model in the eye of the community, the sensitivity of prophethood and the fatherly compassion, the introduction of the requirement of being of age about marriage in the verses that were sent down (34), that the narrations about her age and marriage are not certain since there are differences in them (35) that Hz. Aisha herself used the phrase "six or seven", which is not definite, while mentioning her age, and that the dates of birth and death were not determined very clearly in the communities of that age are to be taken into consideration while evaluating the issue.  
    Nevertheless, the result does not change and they all strengthen the opinion that she was born before the prophethood, was engaged at the age of fourteen or fifteen, and married the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) at the age of seventeen or eighteen.
    In that case, the narrations that she was 6 or 7 years old when she was engaged and 9 when she got married should be interpreted as follows: ‘I looked that age.’ (36) The information that Hz. Aisha had a weak and thin body strengthens this interpretation. For, she had a body that was quickly affected by physical conditions and that made her look younger than her peers. That she got sick during the Migration to Madinah (37) and her mother tried to heal her by showing great care (38), that people thought she was in the hawdaj (a closed compartment put on the back of camel) and placed the hawdaj on the camel while returning from Sons of Mustaliq Expedition, and that they could not understand whether she was in the hawdaj or not (39) and similar incidences confirm this view.
    To sum up, even if Hz. Aisha might have married when she was nine years old, it is very natural and normal according to the understanding of the community of that time but when the issue is viewed from a broader perspective, it is understood that she became a wife of the Prophet when she was seventeen or eighteen.  
    The following question comes to mind here: "Why did this issue not come up in this way until recently?" As it was stated at the beginning of this writing, no negative statement was made regarding the issue until recently; neither Abu Jahl, who was an obstinate person like Pharaoh and who used any occasion against Islam, nor Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul, who produced mischief and slander from unexpected issues, expressed any objection to this marriage because there is nothing to object to regarding the issue. There is a natural acceptance for both cases according to the understanding of that period; this issue did not arise the need to bring a new perspective to the issue by approaching it differently; therefore, it was not possible for the Islamic scholars in the past to express different opinions about the accuracy of such news or the existence of alternative information.
    Footnotes:
    1. see Bukhari, Manaqibul-Ansar 20, 44; Muslim, Nikah 71; Fadailus-Sahaba 74; Abu Dawud, Adab 55; Ibn Majah, Nikah 13; Nasai, Nikah 78; Darimi, Nikah 56.
    2. see Azimli, Mehmet, Hz. Âişe’nin Evlilik Yaşı Tartışmalarında Savunmacı Tarihçiliğin Çıkmazı, İslâmî Araştırmalar, Volume 16, Issue 1, 2003, p. 28 ff.
    3. see Doğrul, Ömer Rıza, Asr-ı Saâdet, Eskişehir Kütüphanesi (Eser Kitabevi), Istanbul, 1974, 2/141 ff; Nadwi, Sayyid Sulayman, Hazreti Âişe, Translated by Ahmet Karataş, Timaş Publications, Istanbul, 2004, p. 21 ff. Savaş, Rıza, Hz. Âişe’nin Evlenme Yaşı İle İlgili Farklı Bir Yaklaşım, D. E. Ü. İlâhiyât Fak. Periodical. 4, Izmir, 1995, p. 139-144; Yüce, Abdülhakim, Efendimiz’in Bir Günü, Işık Publications, Istanbul, 2007, p. 82, 83.
    4. It is known that Abdulmuttalib, the grandfather of the Prophet, married Hala bint Uhayb at an early age, that he Prophet’s mother Amina and his father Abdullah also married at an early age, that both marriages took place in the same place and hence there was almost no age difference between the Prophet and his paternal uncle Hz. Hamza.
    5. Hz. Umar married Hz. Ali’s daughter Umm Kulthum with the intention of being a relative of the Prophet despite the age difference between them and this marriage was not found odd by the community of that day.
    6. see Ibnul-Athir, Usdul-Ghaba, 3/240.
    7. see Ibn Hisham, Sirah, 1/271; Ibn Ishaq, Sirah, Konya, 1981, 124.
    8. see Ibn Hisham, Sirah, 1/271; Ibn Ishaq, Sirah, 124.
    9. Nawawi, Tahdhibul-Asma, 2/597; Hakim, Mustadrak 3/635.
    10. Nawawi, Tahdhibul-Asma, 2/597; Hakim, Mustadrak 3/635.
    11. It is also stated that Hz. Aisha married not in the month of Shawwal, seven months after the Migration and immediately after the Battle of Badr, but in the month of Shawwal in the year after that. In that case, it means her age of marriage was one year later. see Nawawi, Tahdhibul-Asma, 2/616.
    12. see Bukhari, Fadailul-Quran 6, Tafsiru Sura, (54) 6; Ayni, Badruddin Abu Muhammad Mahmud ibn Ahmad, Umdatul-Qari Sharhu Sahihil-Bukhari, Daru Ihyait-Turathil-Arabi, 20/21; Asqalani, Fathul-Bari, 11/291.
    13. Suyuti, Itqan, Beirut, 1987, 1/29, 50; Doğrul, Asr-ı Saadet, 2/148.
    14. The disagreement about the eighth or ninth year originates from the difference of month. For, the phrase the eighth month of the eighth year is remarkable in some narrations.
    15. Those who evaluate all that information and calculate the possibilities conclude that when Hz. Aisha married, she was at least fourteen years old and that she could have been twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four or twenty-eight but we did not take those interpretations into consideration because they are not based on any facts. 
    16. Ibn Manzur, Lisanul-Arab 13/138.
    17. This information is reported only by Asma, her sister, along with her. see Ibn Hisham, Sira, 1/176; Haythami, Majmauz-Zawaid, 3/285; Ibn Kathir, Tafsir, 4/553; Bidaya, 2/214; Qurtubi, Tafsir, 20/195.

33. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) felt lonely after the death of our mother, Hazrat Khadija. Both our Holy Prophet (PBUH) and his companions were aware of this situation.
    One day, Hazrat Uthman bin Maz’un’s wife, Lady Hawla, came to the presence of our Holy Prophet (PBUH) and said,

    “O Allah’s Apostle! When I came to your presence I suddenly sensed Khadijah’s absence.”
    To which our Holy Prophet (PBUH) replied,
    “Yes, she was the mother of my children as well as the guardian of my home,”

    signifying that Hazrat Khadija’s transition to the eternal world had left a gap. Upon this talk of the (pbuh), Hawla binti Hakim said,

    “Oh Allah’s Apostle! Would you like to get married?”
    The Prophet said, “Whom?”
    “To Abu Bakr’s daughter, Aisha, or Sawda bint Zama…”
    After this dialogue, the Messenger of Allah said to Hawla, “Go and talk to both of them on behalf of me!”

    Upon this, Lady Hawla rushed to Hazrat Abu Bakr’s home. Umm Ruman, Hazrat Aisha’s mother, was there.

    “O Umm Ruman, do you know what blessings and benevolence Allah has granted you?”
    Lady Ruman asked, “What?” Lady Hawla replied,
    “Allah’s Apostle (PBUH) has sent me to ask for Aisha’s hand in marriage”.
    Since Hazrat Abu Bakr was not at home at that time, Umm Ruman did not give any answer to Hawla. She said,
    “Wait till Abu Bakr comes home.”
    When Hazrat Abu Bakr came, Hawla asked in the same manner,
    “O Abu Bakr, do you know what blessings and benevolence Allah has granted you?”
    Abu Bakr replied,
    “What are they?”
    Hawla replied,
    “Allah’s Apostle has sent me to ask for Aisha’s hand in marriage.”
    After thinking for some time, Hazrat Abu Bakr asked,
    “Considering that Aisha is his brother’s daughter, would it be permissible for him to marry her?”

    Hawla immediately returned to our Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) presence and explained the situation to him. Our Holy Prophet (PBUH) answered:

    “Return to Abu Bakr. Tell him that “me being your brother and you being mine (does not include siblinghood through blood and milk) is brotherhood in Islam. For that reason, your daughter is lawful for me.”

    When Hawla returned and made this known, Hazrat Abu Bakr’s worries were lifted. He engaged and wed his daughter Hazrat Aisha to our Holy Prophet (PBUH) in the month of Shawwal. However, the wedding was postponed until a later date. (1)
    1 Ibn Sa’d, Tabaqat, V. 8, p. 58; Bukhari, Sahih, V. 2, p. 329; Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, Musnad, V. 6, p. 211.

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