Commentary: How to hold Purdue Pharma accountable for its role in the opioid epidemic

The country’s other major public health crisis, the prescription opioid epidemic, has killed far more Americans than have died so far from COVID-19. Yet a major injustice to the opioid victims and their families is playing out mostly in the shadows in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York. That is where Purdue Pharma, the privately owned drug company responsible for the blockbuster OxyContin …