Opioids III: The Sacklers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

"Why are my friends telling me that our family's work is killing people?" Because it is, sweetie. It is.

Sell Marijuana to one person = goes to jail for 20 years Sackler: hold my medicine - sells opium to a whole generation = pays a fine

Imagine if you rob a bank, you steal $100,000, you get busted, but you only have to return $10 and you never go to jail. That's the equivalent of the Purdue settlement.

I just googled "judge for yourselves" with no clarifying properties. Just those 3 words. And Johns site was the first result. Thank the freaking lord.

"It's not my fault that pedestrian died when my car hit him. It's my car's fault" - Every. Sackler. Ever.

So let me get this straight- smoking pot can land you decades in prison but enabling mass murder will result in zero consequences? Now that's American Justice™!

This episode hit me hard. Lost my mother to the opioid crisis before anyone was actually talking about it openly. I miss her so much. If I had money to throw around like the Sattlers, everyone would know her beautiful face and her struggles. And how she was lost. Thank you John Oliver

Thank you... Opiates took everything from me. I was 24 with a good job and had everything. Then I tried oxycontin and within 3 years I lost everything. Homeless. I turned to crime to support my habit at age 30. Up to that point I had a single speeding ticket. For almost ten years opiates controlled me. I was unable to stop. I came into life with privilege and lost everything. My life is forever scarred. The feeling of shame and guilt is overwhelming. Sometimes I wish I would just die and I'm sober, not homeless and not a criminal anymore. The wound it has inflicted will not heal. Ever. I cry everyday and don't understand why. It has sapped the happiness, hope and will to live from me. I thought getting sober would take away the pain. It hasn't.

"This is the best we can do under the current system" absolutely sounds like a call for a new system.

Every time John Oliver buys a website, an angel gets its wings.

"How many billions is it right for you to keep?" Excellent. Just excellent. Thank you John, this is one of the best I've ever seen you do.

I know of 4 people in my graduating class in high school who overdosed on oxytocin in less than 5 years after graduation and at least a third of us have battled addiction my uncle's generation who is thirteen years older than me are all under achievers I can't express in text the damage opiods has done to me my family and the tiny community in Appalachia I grew up in

I'm a registered nurse. I have seen the tactics these Pharma companies used to push opioids. I worked ER for 13 years and saw how the opioid epidemic affected individuals and societies. The amount of disgust I felt at the Sackler family's "deal" far exceeded that of all the bedpans I've emptied in over 20 years of nursing. Thank you for covering this story and spreading the word about it. I just wish we could have justice

I lost my sister to an opioid overdose. Everyone in my high school started on Oxy before getting into heroin. Some made it out and some did not. It's so hard to let go when these demons continue to rake in billions off misery.

"Billionaire goes to space and dies there" Not space... And not one... But it was still beautiful.

Who in the hell is this guy? Talent like that is very rare, and John Oliver, thank you. It's not just me but many people are grateful for helping us get through covid-19 and all the crazy things that have been happening since.

Linguist here. Can confirm: not even my children are intimidated by me.

I love you John Oliver and your team, for your care you put into this. I was prescribed opiates for 10 years, and immediately cut off by the doctor one day for no reason. He just said I can't give them too you anymore. Needless too say, at the time I was oblivious to what addiction was or withdraws or anything like that because I never heard of in my life or experienced it. As you can imagine my life went down hill pretty quick, I'm now on the path too recovery but it's been alot of painful years of mental, and physical stress. And Tons of mental and physical therapy. So thank you so much for exposing these evil peices of shit.

The show Dopesick was so hard to watch, but also so good.

I feel like the Sacklers are one of those families that are so rich, that you were never even supposed to hear about them in the first place, they messed up tho