They [doctors] have prescribed hundreds if not thousands of opioid prescriptions, most of the time without even seeing the proposed patients, one hundred and fifteen people a day are dying of opioid overdoses. That's more people than are killed in car wrecks.

Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan

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It is very, very addictive. And it's killing people. And probably the worst part of all this in some ways is these big pharmaceutical companies like Purdue know exactly, and knew exactly, how dangerous these drugs could be. And instead of having safeguards at their corporate level, they instead put profits again over people.

Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan

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One hundred and fifteen people a day are dying of opioid overdoses. That's more people than are killed in car wrecks.

Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan

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