"I am so truly sorry that when I was suffering from my addiction I made these poor choices and I am grateful for the medical care I have been able to get in my recovery,"
"Sackler pleaded guilty to obstructing a federal grand jury investigation after being caught on the receiving end of an illegal shipment of prescription drugs in 2024. At the time, Sackler deleted a handful of WhatsApp messages incriminating her as the recipient, leading to a single felony count."
"Sackler faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, though her stay will probably be far shorter, Bloomberg notes. Speaking to the press, Sackler's lawyer Walter Norkin tried to distance the case from the Sackler family's involvement in the opioid epidemic, saying that her case is "entirely unrelated to Purdue Pharma or any other members of her family.""
"the roots of the issue go far beyond one family dynasty - even one with as much money and power as the Sacklers. As Princeton University economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton argued in a bombshell piece of research from 2022, the rise in deaths from drugs in the US was spurred by decades of declining economic opportunity for working class people with relatively low levels of education."
A Sackler family member admitted addiction to habit-forming opioids and pleaded guilty to obstructing a federal grand jury investigation. She was caught receiving an illegal shipment of prescription drugs in 2024 and deleted WhatsApp messages that incriminated her, resulting in a single felony count. She expressed remorse for choices made while suffering from addiction and credited medical care received during recovery. She faces up to 20 years in prison, though a shorter sentence is likely. Her lawyer said the case is unrelated to Purdue Pharma or other family members. Broader opioid harm is linked to decades of declining economic opportunity for working-class people with lower education levels, and economic conditions enabled aggressive commercialization by major pharmacy chains.
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