Families of those lost in opioid crisis 'devastated' by Supreme Court's decision to reject Purdue settlement
Some people who lost family members to opioids expressed shock and sadness, but also a resolve to keep fighting, after the Supreme Court on Thursday torpedoed a massive settlement for victims of the drug crisis.
Some people who lost family members to opioids expressed shock and sadness, but also a resolve to keep fighting, after the Supreme Court on Thursday torpedoed a massive settlement for victims of the drug crisis.
"I felt like someone came up and punched me in the stomach," Jill Cichowicz, whose twin brother, Scott Zebrowski, collapsed in a California parking lot and died of fentanyl poisoning after he took what he thought was OxyContin in 2017, said.
"It kind of equated to the day that he died," Cichowicz, who founded a nonprofit group called Two in the Stigma, said in an interview that aired on NBC News' "Hallie Jackson Now."
In a 5-4 decision Thursday, the Supreme Court blocked a huge bankruptcy reorganization of Purdue Pharma, the company that made and marketed OxyContin, a prescription painkiller that was abused and led to people all over the country getting addicted.
The majority ruled that the bankruptcy court did not have the authority to release the Sackler family members from opioid victims' legal claims.
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