Sackler cash can end fentanyl carnage — if we use it right

Sackler cash can end fentanyl carnage — if we use it right

In a long-overdue reckoning, the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma have agreed to pay $7.4 billion as partial atonement for unleashing America’s opioid crisis. This historic settlement offers more than symbolic closure. If allocated wisely and aggressively, the funds could signal the beginning of the end for the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history.Once fueled by prescription pills like OxyContin, the opioid crisis has evolved into something f…