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Since OxyContin came on the market,
奧施康定上市以來，
more than 200,000 Americans have died of overdoses related to prescription opioids.
美國已經有20多萬人死于處方阿片類藥物過量。
As reports of overdoses grew, Richard Sackler urged the company to blame the patients.
隨著過量用藥的報道越來越多，理查德·薩克勒敦促該公司（趕緊）將責任推到患者身上。
"We have to hammer on abusers in every way possible," he wrote in a 2001 email disclosed in documents filed in the Massachusetts case.
馬薩諸塞州案存檔的文件披露，他在2001年的一封電子郵件中寫道，“我們必須盡一切可能推到濫用的患者身上。”
"They are the culprits and the problem. They are reckless criminal."
“他們才是罪魁禍首和問題所在。他們就是魯莽的罪犯。”
That year, after a federal prosecutor highlighted 59 OxyContin-related deaths in one state,
那一年，在一位聯邦檢察官強調，一個州就有59人死于奧施康定（攝入過量）后，
Mr. Sackler wrote: "This is not too bad. It could have been far worse."
薩克勒寫道：“并不算太糟。問題原本可能更糟的。”
The same year Purdue lawyers negotiated the federal guilty plea,
就在普渡制藥的律師就聯邦認罪協議展開談判的那一年，
the Sacklers quietly formed a new company to sell generic opioids, called Rhodes,
薩克勒家族的人還悄悄地成立了一家名為“羅德”的公司，用來銷售平價阿片類藥物。
according to the New York lawsuit.
紐約的訴訟顯示。
Rhodes was set up as a ‘landing pad’ for the Sackler family in 2007,
訴訟援引普渡制藥一位前高級經理的話稱，這家公司成立于2007年，
to prepare for the possibility that they would need to start afresh following the crisis, then engulfing OxyContin,
其作用是充當薩克勒家族的一個“停機坪”，
the suit quotes a former senior manager at Purdue as saying.
以防他們在針對奧施康定的這次危機結束后需要重新來過。
The Sacklers were intimately involved in overseeing and approving Rhodes’s activities, court records show.
法庭記錄顯示，薩克勒家族的成員直接參與了監督和批準羅德公司的工作事項。
They saw the agendas for board of directors meetings and the financial statements.
他們能夠看到公司董事會會議的議程和財務報表。
In the years that followed,
在接下來的幾年里，
Theresa, Kathe and Jonathan Sackler would serve on Rhodes’s governance committee, according to the New York lawsuit,
紐約的訴訟顯示，特蕾莎、卡特斯和喬納森·薩克勒還將在羅德的管理委員會任職，
while Kathe, Jonathan, Mortimer and David served on its business development committee.
凱特、喬納森、莫蒂默和戴維則將在羅德的商業發展委員會任職。
The business operations of Rhodes, based in Rhode Island, and Purdue, based in Connecticut, were closely enmeshed.
總部位于羅德島的羅德公司的商業運作和總部位于康涅狄格的普渡制藥的商業運作有著緊密的聯系。
Rhodes relied on Purdue to oversee its compliance with government regulations,
羅德需要依賴普渡制藥監督其遵守政府規定的情況，
ensuring the quality and safety of its products,
以確保其產品的質量和安全，
the New York lawsuit says,
紐約州的訴訟顯示，
providing, for example, statistics and data to Rhodes’s compliance committee for review.
為羅德的監察委員會提供審查用的統計數據。
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