Opioid Victims Are Left Out In Purdue Pharma Deal | Amanpour and Company
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2021
- In September 2019, Purdue Pharma - the makers of Oxycontin, a mass-marketed pain medication - filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from hundreds of lawsuits for its part in the overdose epidemic. One who has experienced firsthand the deadly effect of the highly addictive drug is Ryan Hampton. After more than a decade of using opioids, he is in long-term recovery. He was also part of a watchdog committee set up by the Department of Justice to represent all of Purdue’s creditors, from states and hospitals to people like himself. Hampton’s new book is out today and tells the inside story of these proceedings -- a David vs Goliath tale that he discusses with Hari Sreenivasan.
Originally aired on October 5, 2021.
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This is one of the dirtiest deals I've ever seen. The rich never pay.
You said it.....so sick of watching them get away with wrongdoing that none of the rest of us would get away with.
Hope you voted for, not at all, "sleepy Joe". 😊
For those keeping track at home, that comes out to $1,000,000 PER LAWYER. And $3,000 per victim. Absolutely terrible.
What is the name of your book? I want to buy it . You should put title of your book in the title of this UA-cam video. After 4 back surgeries I was on 4 Oxy 80s a day. They never lasted 12 hours. Maybe 6. I had to go to rehab ( 2005 I got medical help to get off them...ANYONE CAN TOO! THERE IS A LOT OF HELP NOW I could not do it cold turkey )to get off them after being on them for 3 years. They took my soul & brain and I didn't care if I died. I am truly lucky they did not kill me!
I purchased the book and it is very good.
It's actually disgusting 🤢
Its disgusting!!!
The BAR needs to be sent back to the monarchy where it belongs. The damage that association has done is unbelievable to grasp.
On behalf on my three dead cousins and so many still suffering, I personally thank you Ryan Hampton.
Please let us know who should be contacted or suggest how we may help push toward criminal charges.
Though justice is not possible, may truth and healing continue..
How can we not feel hatred?
A family just buried their daughter last Saturday-she had a good job, a good husband, but things went downhill when she went to the doctor's and was prescribed oxycodone. She became addicted to it, and it killed her. She lost everything, and in the end, lost her life to it.
I lost a brother in much the same way. He had a liver transplant and eventually developed painful scar adhesions for which he was prescribed oxy. He became addicted and eventually died from an accidental overdose. It was ruled accidental, and I always wondered if the fact that his new liver was not ready for such an assault
@@judyshallstrom415 nah i dont think it works like that. Tolerance is tolerance. New liver or not
Families like this are so removed from the real world, they will never acknowledge any wrong doing
Maybe THE FAMILY should take some of THEIR OWN MEDICINE! They deserve to lose EVERYTHING!
And the lawyers get rich off peoples suffering…..again.
What's new. But we've been on everyone's menu and they are offering an all you can eat and have for far too long. From pharma to treatment to criminal justice and so many more including unethical nonprofits. It's disgusting and immoral.
Then they can fund more of their good work constructing incomprehensible
mountains of legalese, to protect all of us good people from a vengeful god.
It's win win.
LAWYERS in almost every field, especially Politicians RUIN America!!
Lawyers love Class Action suits cos they Automatically SKIM up to 40% before Claimants get anything!!!
The Lawyer who's been suing Food Companies is now a multimillionaire, meanwhile people with permanent health issues got a few bucks on claims.
Then there's (UN) Personal Lawyers
HOW Many CHILDREN have suffered from Bankruptcies Caused Directly by Parents' DIVORCE LAWYERS???
It's NOT a Repugs vs Dims Divide
It's LAWYERS vs THE REST of US!!!
heaven help us cos they're despicable!
Infuriating and extremely brave. I pray your book is wildly successful. This will prove the pulse of our nation.
Ryan Hampton = Huckster. Listen to him pointing a finger at everyone except one person.
@@joedellaselva1251 victim-blaming. sounds like an apologist. or a Sackler
This is our whole country now. Billionaires who drive our lives.
I do find it very curious that hulu has put out Dopesick now and being talked about a lot. Now with covid V is being pushed. Billions maybe more being made of this
Because the nice people get to see the truth they rarely see in high life or ignorance. I lived it word for word and I'm pissed
The people who say you did this to yourself, should be made to experience and understand addiction. They should be prescribed Oxycontin for 3 to 6 months, and then see how it goes for them.
Exactly they trusted their doctors and the medical system in America
Anyone watch Dope sick on Hulu? Wow!
Yes! It’s amazing! Highly recommend
It's the best government that money can buy.
Just like probate court. Lawyers get as much as they can, even if it means heirs never see a penny.
And they’re still prescribing Oxys for wisdom tooth extraction. It is the first thing my doctor wanted to prescribe me last week. They were clueless when I told them about this.
Get a new dentist! Prescription for oxy should usually be a last resort if you care for your patients well being.
Only in the USA
Absolutely sickening... I was 17 yrs old being prescribed Oxycontin 80mg 120 per month for knee pain in Florida in 2001. I had no idea what I was getting into and it led me down a path of life that was absolute hell. I am now opioid free and have been for 2 yrs. It took away my late teens, 20s and half of my 30s to beat the addiction... Purdue absolutely destroyed my life and thousands upon thousands of other life's and they could care less....
How do they compensate those lives ruined and lost? The very victims then get nothing
ITS DISGUSTING!! How is this possible??? WHen do WE GET PAID???
This is one ot the most compelling interviews I have seen. Being in recovery for over 10 years thank god, I too was railroaded in a state that completely allowed doctors to write scripts for opioids and it impacted my entire community. I have lost 8 friends I went to school with: I lost my future, my marriage ect. I was not an addict before oxycontin: I was turned into one when the doctor lied; the sacklers lied the whole medical community lied- and said that as long as I took the medicine as directed I wouldn’t be addicted. The sacklers should be in prison.
Of course it was killed by them Ryan because they were complicit in the problem and participated in it and now they're trying to get rich on it.
I’m in NY and in contact with my legislature now. With a draft of a petition for redress of grievances with a prayer for relief. I’m willing to join forces.
Anyone know and current class action suit in Canada people can still join?
So, I'm confused, when caught up in the "pill mills", he was obtaining medication he specifically requested and wanted?
I’m trying to get my state to find funds to at least get all survivors cosmetic dentistry. Damaged, uncompensated, no insecure because of these drugs. The healing never real will start. Loving yourself is number 1
The Sackler's
Well if the victim is destitute because of their bullshit. Then anything would help. So WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET PAYED?
So when are we going to get our penny's for them screwing up our life's?
Reparations is quick when its: "You know the thing" 🦉
No one BUT VICTIMS should be compensated, this is criminal of govs....
ryan for president
Will victims even recieve a dime
THE DEVIL WORKS HARD
🤔🤔🤔
If I am paying my attorneys 1.2 Billion, I want my attorneys and the Department of Justice to pursue criminal charges and Capital Punishment against the Sackler family and CVS and Walgreens and other entity that was involved in the Opied crisis. Then I want all attorneys and the DOJ attorneys to release any money that they took on any state cases. for their fees for them to get paid off by Purdue, CVS and Walgreens and any other entity that was involved. So they would not purse criminal charges against Purdue Pharma and CVS and Walgreens and any other entity. I want criminal and Capital Punishment charges brought up against Walgreen's and CVS as well and any other entity. I want victims rights and restitution for victims. And to see all that contributed this Opied crisis to get arrested and have there life's ruined for killing my friends and victims and knowing what they did was wrong and unlawful, like drug dealers that they were instead of walking away with a slap on there hands. I will say this, I will make sure they pay. With all my legal knowledge. I will use it and if they do not pay today. They will pay for it tomorrow. Because, there is no statue of limitations on pre meditate murder! I will fight until I die. And I will make a difference trust me on this. I will not get bought off like the Department of Justice Attorneys, and all the Attorneys that are working on these cases. No one is respecting all the individuals and victims because all the attorneys all the pharmaceutical companies all the distributors have paid off all the attorneys and all the Department of Justice Attorneys that are involved, they don't care about the victims, they're just concerned about their pockets $$$ and act like Racketeers and Mobsters. they should be a shame for representing the People. People need to go to jail and stricken their lives and serve time for a minimum of 25 years as killers as they are, if you kill someone and pre meditate it, and you are killing multiple times, Then you're considered to be a serial killer, face the law now and get the gas chamber or electric chair. Because, you were saying when you did the crime and have no remorse on killing many and knew exactly what you were doing. So who attributed to this should go to jail for a very long time or die of capital punishment like every one else that pre meditates to kill. And, have all their money taken away by the IRS like Pablo Escobar and any high ranked cocaine dealer. And have all their funds distributed to all the victims and individuals that they did harm to. I am going to request "Capital Punishment for everyone from pay offs to ignoring the facts of what a Life meant. The serial killers knew what they did and always got life imprisonment or DEATH for pre meditate killing! And why are federal judges allowing them to walk from capital punishment, it's because they got paid off as well. This should not be allowed!
I think I would of just rather overdosed. It would of been better then this. God I'm sad. Peace@Love
AND VICTIMS HAVE STILL NOT SEEN MONEY!!!!!!!!
EU DR.UP....PURDUE
This is WHY PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN.
So legitimate pain patients should suffer for people who broke the law and resorted to illegal potent drugs? Why not sue Budweiser Co for people who have killed how many others for their addiction and breaking the law? Everyone knows drinking can be addicted, so should nobody be allowed to drink? Something else is going on here.
Nobody's trying to take your pain meds or access. Further, people don't choose to have that addiction chemistry activated in their brain. Science needs to create meds and anecdotes to prevent this while giving people access. They've got the money if they'd stop exploiting us. So no worries, we support your need or right to your pills but killing us wasn't and isn't okay. Find a solution that addressed both.
Fyi. They falsely advertised this med could not be abused and wasn't addictive and should be prescribed freely even after they were made aware it was quite the opposite and was leading to countless deaths, like my child's. They laughed and thought it was actually good for business. I have a headache but will expound on this later.
@@blakejohnson3864 every prescription has a clear warning label on it, and always did. There were never advertisements on television, unlike other prescription we see daily, or alcohol advertising worldwide. Does alcohol even have warnings on it? If your Dr suggests it's ok to have a glass of wine with dinner and you become addicted, is he at fault along with the wine company? We may as well sue France and vineyards while we're at it.
@@waitaminute2015 you are seriously arguing your point arent you????? And you need to check your facts, Oxycontin WAS MOST DEFINITELY ADVERTISED ON TV, magazines,newspapers, etc etc. Were you around in 96,97,98??? Im assuming not because you werent aware of the Ads. But yea T you can bet your ass they advertized on tv
@@SouthernSilverExchange I wasn't just around then, I was probably on it, or something like it. I did a quick search to see if there were ads and didn't find anything. I don't remember ever seeing an ad for it, but since I don't have proof, I'm not going to argue the point. What I will argue, is there are literally millions of pain patients relying on these medicines right now, who continue to responsibility take them in order to have some quality of life, and they're not dead . Why should pain patients suffer for the minority that look to illegal dangerous drugs. Why should pain patients be treated like they're on probation, or be denied quality of life? My medicine allows me to still function independent and keep working instead of going on disability. We are subjected to abuse at pharmacies, Drs are afraid to treat us and insist we are subjected to dangerous injections or surgeries in order to justify to the lawmakers, random urine tests and contracts. Many pain patients have committed suicide because Drs are afraid and the pain was unbearable. So yes, I will argue and defend the millions of innocent suffering people by no choice of their own being lumped into statistics of opioid deaths that are really fentanyl or heroin deaths. Would you take insulin away from a diabetic and tell them to just loose weight and suffer, or BP medicine because after all you shouldn't eat the fries, and some of those medicines don't even work and can kill people. We're not trying to die, were trying to LIVE!
Oxycontin has served the medical community and the patients dependent upon pain medication. Shut up Mr. Hampton, please.
I was making $134k in 2002. On disability since falling off roof and make 16k on SSI/SSDI. I didn't know I was addicted to drugs until I read what Purdue did to me word for word. I has been a 22 year nightmare that I had to end after waiting almost 5 years the government is not fair and this is a really cruel punishment to wait while cities, governments lawyers all have been paid. Where's my money? so has been in OKC since 12/23. I want my money I paid for it with 19 years of my life .