Elizabeth Warren rolled out a new version of her aggressive plan to combat the opioid crisis, hoping the crackdown will appeal to 2020 voters in states hard-hit by the epidemic
Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday rolled out a new version of her aggressive plan to combat the opioid crisis, hoping the crackdown will appeal to 2020 voters in states hit hard by the epidemic.
But even as she has repeatedly vowed to punish executives profiting off the booming industry, Warren’s campaign in 2018 accepted money from a prominent family member of one of the nation’s top opioid manufacturers.
“An America where, when people like the Sacklers destroy millions of lives to make money, they don’t get museum wings named after them, they go to jail,” Warren wrote in a Medium post on Wednesday, referencing the large number of museums bearing the Sackler name because of the family’s philanthropy. Other members of the Sackler family, which controls Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, also made financial contributions to Warren in her 2012 and 2018 campaigns, and she will donate $4,500 in total.
In her Medium post, Warren presented an updated version of her previous legislative proposal that would spend $100 billion over the next decade to combat the opioid crisis. She is also calling for laws that would imprison pharmaceutical executives for criminal negligence if they knowingly played a role in the escalating addiction epidemic.
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