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How the Purdue opioid settlement could help the public understand the roots of the drug crisis

  • Written by Antoine Lentacker, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Riverside
imageEsther Nesbitt lost two of her children to drug overdoses.Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

There’s a long history of U.S. courts being called upon to fix large-scale public health crises.

Lawyers and judges, for instance, were key in settling claims related to asbestos, lead paint, Agent Orange and tobacco. More recently, they have...

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