400,000 opioid deaths sad legacy for Sackler

Never heard of Jonathon Sackler till his death at 65 announced today. Turns out the Sackler family holds position 19 in America's billionaire elite, worth a cool $13 billion. But that wealth in money mad America sometimes comes at a cost; in this case over 400,000 opioid deaths since 2000 from the morphine pill trademarked Oxycontin Sackler peddled as co-owner of Perdue Pharma. Jonathon's Poppa Sackler and his brothers founded it in 1952. For many years it avoided scrutiny selling harmless pharmaceuticals such as earwax remover and laxatives. But pain management from wildly addictive and deadly Oxycontin propelled the Sackler clan to billionaire status, the hundreds of thousands killed by it be damned. Most of us live out our lives doing little or no damage to mankind. Jonathon Sackler's epitaph? 'Lived large as hundreds of thousands died'.