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“That’s a luxury that most of us cannot afford.”

Basically what they said was you’re marketing opioids—this very addictive, very dangerous medication that probably should only be used in the most extreme cases—to doctors and to hospitals that they should give it out for relatively minor things. And you’re assuring them that this new formulation that you’ve created is far less addictive. And we don’t think the evidence really supports that.

, who was on the board, said, basically, “Based on what I knew then, I don’t know what I could have done differently.”What’s interesting is that when you hear her voice, she sounds reflective. That’s what stood out to me. It sounded like she really knew how to say the words, but it was hard to know if they were genuine.

I want to talk about that immunity and how far it goes, because at that hearing the other day, one of the people who testified was a criminal court judge, a guy named Bill Nelson, whose son died of an overdose. He seemed really frustrated that Richard Sackler wouldn’t show his face. But he also made the point that “I put drug dealers away with a single wrap of a gavel. And I do it without blinking an eye. And I wish I could do the same to you.

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