In 2018, around one thousand Connecticut residents died from opioid overdoses, according to the state’s Chief Medical Examiner. Connecticut has joined nearly every state including thousands of municipalities in suing Stamford-based opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma.
This hour, we get the latest after Purdue filed for bankruptcy Sunday. Twenty states tentatively reached a multi-billion dollar settlement with Purdue Pharma. But we find out why Connecticut Attorney General William Tong says this settlement doesn’t go far enough.
Later, we hear from a Connecticut teen who’s helping organize a “Connecticut Climate Strike” this Friday in Hartford.
And we get the latest on the Bridgeport mayoral race.
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GUESTS:
- Lenny Bernstein - Health and Medicine reporter for the Washington Post who covers the opioid epidemic (@LennyMBernstein)
- Mark Pazniokas - Capitol Bureau Chief at the Connecticut Mirror (@CTMirrorPaz)
- Sena Wazer - 15 year old climate activist and freshman at UConn; she is one of the organizers of the Connecticut Climate Strike in Hartford, which will take place Friday, September 20
Chion Wolf contributed to this show.
