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A way to make amends for the pain that we have caused others is to give back.

Ain't no one thing in this world I wouldn't do to help you get better when you're sick, nothing.

If I could change places with her, I would.

Ain't nothing either one of us can say gonna change anything. Or make us fell any different.

The more milligrams you sold, the more money you made.

We all done things in our lives that we aren't proud of. But we make amends by trying to make the future a bette place for others.

I've seen coal executives fly in for generations and use their money to shut down unions and manipulate this region into lower labor costs. That's just what wealthy people do. They take advantage of the folks that don't have money to fight back.

I would rather burn in hell that take a penny of their blood money.

We now have an open-and-shut case of misbranding, mail fraud, wire fraud, and because the company profited from illegal activity, we've got money laundering as well.

Lay it all out for Main Justice so that when they read it, they know they've got no choice but to indict these guys.

Proposed indictment of Purdue Pharma.

Perhaps no case in our history rivals the burden placed on public health and safety as that in the Western District of Virginia. It is our recommendation to charge the defendants with conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, interstate distribution of misbranded drug with intent to defraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and money laundering.

OxyContin abuse has significantly impacted the lives of millions of Americans. And the fraudulent scheme and conduct articulated in this matter has a direct correlation to the health of this region and to the entire nation as a whole.

We won't know until we try.

The career guys are with you, but I think you'll ultimately get blocked by the political appointees.

I tried to build the case in a way that Main Justice couldn't just bruch it under the rug.

The field's just so comprised with the government.

Needed to stop, or who knows what could've happened?

A memo leaked from the attorney general's office of a list of U.S. attorneys to be fired. There's gonna be a wave of firings.

The lack of incarceration in this case, to me, is the most difficult aspect of the plea agreements. While I understand this may not be a popular decision, it is my job to follow the law.

The first thing you tell your doctors is that the settlement was grossly unfair. These execs didn't have anything to do with what they were charged with. It was a few bad apples we fired years ago. What's most important is, you keep selling aggressively as possible. This isn't a time for caution.

You dealt the first blow, and now there's convictions and a legal record of their crimes.

People will be able to use to build future cases on.

This process was stacked from beginning. They knew that the Sacklers were betting on a broken bandruptcy system that would allow them to use the bankruptcy of the company of Purdue Pharma to shield themselves.

What's so important about these group sessions is the chance to connect.

Addiction does the exact opposite of what connection does. Addiction tears apart. It tears apart friendships. It tears apart marriages. It'll tear apart a family, tear apart a whole community. Part of the reason we relapse is because of pain. There's some kind of pain that's in a lot of us, or all of us, we just don't want to feel anymore. And further we fall into addiction, pain says to us, hell, we'd better off just feeling nothing at all. So we go numb. And our souls go numb. Now we've got a real problem. Pain is just pain. Not good, not bad, just part of being a human being. And sometimes, good can come out of it. And if we're brave enough and willing to go a little deeper, work our way through it, and try to overcome it, we just might find our better selves.