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 January 2019: The National Safety Council reports it is now, for the first time, more likely to die from an opioid overdose than from a car accident.

 March 2019: More than 600 cities and Native American tribes from 28 states sued eight Sackler Family members, Purdue Pharma’s senior figures, for allegedly boosting sales through manipulative marketing.

 May 2019: Five executives of “Insys Therapeutics” (produce a version of fentanyl) are found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe opioids to people who didn’t need them.

 May 2019: “Teva Pharmaceuticals” agrees to pay $85 million fine in Oklahoma.

 Aug. 26, 2019: “Johnson & Johnson” must pay $572 million in fines for its role in the opioid crisis in Oklahoma.

 Aug. 27, 2019: NBC News reports that Purdue Pharma is offering to pay between $10 billion and $12 billion for its role in creating the crisis.

 Sept. 16, 2019: The Sackler family is accused of arranging transfers of at least $1 billion to Switzerland to secure private assets. As early as 2007, $4 billion in private assets were allegedly withdrawn from the company and transferred abroad. The $12 billion settlement was rejected by the plaintiff states. Purdue files for bankruptcy.