Ed Bisch Fights to Hold Sacklers Accountable For Opioid Epidemic 22 Years After Son Died Of Overdose

We continue our look at the Sackler family — the billionaire owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma — and efforts to hold them accountable after a federal appeals court ruled this week they can receive complete immunity from all current and future civil litigation related to their role in creating and fueling the opioid epidemic. We speak with Ed Bisch, about his campaign to raise awareness and and calls for the DOJ to prosecute the Sacklers after his 18-year-old son, Eddie, died of an OxyContin-related overdose in 2001. He founded Relatives Against Purdue Pharma. We also speak about the history of the company with Christopher Glazek, an investigative reporter who was the first to publicly report that the Sackler family had significantly profited from selling the opioid OxyContin while fully aware that the highly addictive drug was directly fueling the opioid epidemic in America.

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