I was about to respond as this being a witch hunt or a rich Hunt . Doctors are the ones prescribing, on top of that fda I assume approved the drug as well. Like to understand how they deceived the public or doctors a bit more ,
"In one email, Richard Sackler personally directed sales reps to push doctors to prescribe extremely high doses of opioids."
"The Sacklers constantly tried to persuade doctors and others to prescribe higher doses, especially the extremely profitable 80-milligram tablet; and continually returned to doctors who were vastly overprescribing OxyContin to encourage them to hand out more."
"McKinsey’s consultants instructed Purdue Pharma on how to 'turbocharge' sales of OxyContin,
how to counter efforts by drug enforcement agents to reduce opioid use, & were part of a team that looked at how 'to counter emotional messages from mothers w/ teenagers that overdosed.'"
they were clearly involved in encouraging over-prescription. but more importantly as the group making the most money off of the opioid crisis, they are more capable of paying damages to the impacted.