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OftenBen  ·  1809 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Last Week Tonight: Opioids II

The New Yorker claims that the company made 35 billion off of Oxycontin alone.

According to the NPR article you linked, they paid out 270 million dollars to the state of Oklahoma, for various things, legal fees, treatment, research, etc.

I'm bad at math, so I did a quick calculation.

270 million / 35 billion = 0.77%

So, again, I'm bad at math. But from what I can tell, they paid less than 1% of their earnings as a weregild to make the rest of that 35 billion.