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Rhodes made monetary distributions to two companies
羅德公司曾給兩家公司注入過資金，
that were ultimately owned by trusts set up for the Sacklers: the Rosebay Medical Company and the Beacon Company.
而這兩家公司，羅斯貝醫療公司和燈塔公司，實際上都歸為薩克勒家族成立的信托公司所有。
While the Sacklers "have reduced Purdue’s operations and size,
盡管薩克勒家族“縮減了普渡制藥的業務和規模，
Rhodes continues to grow and sell opioids for the benefit of the Sackler families,
但羅德公司還在繼續增長，繼續為薩克勒家族銷售阿片類藥物，
the New York suit contends.
紐約的訴訟顯示。
By 2016, Rhodes, though little known to the public, had a greater share of the American prescription opioid market than Purdue,
到2016年為止，羅德公司，盡管當時幾乎還不為人知，在美國處方阿片類藥物市場所占的份額就已經超過了普渡制藥，
according to a Financial Times analysis.
英國《金融時報》的一項分析顯示。
Together, the companies ranked seventh in terms of the market share of opioids.
就整個阿片類藥物市場份額排名而言，這三家公司所占份額加起來排名第七。
Purdue temporarily abandoned plans to pursue Project Tango in 2014,
2014年，普渡制藥暫時放棄了開展“探戈項目”的計劃，
but revived the idea two years later,
但兩年后又重啟了這一想法，
this time pursuing a plan to sell naloxone, an overdose-reversing drug,
這次計劃銷售“納洛酮”這種可以逆轉用藥過量的藥物。
according to the Massachusetts filing.
馬薩諸塞州提交的文件顯示。
A few months later, in December 2016,
幾個月后的2016年12月，
Richard, Jonathan and Mortimer Sackler discussed buying a company that used implantable drug pumps to treat opioid addiction.
理查德、喬納森和莫蒂默曾討論過收購一家使用可植入藥泵治療阿片類藥物成癮的公司。
In recent years, the Sacklers and their companies have been developing products for opioid and overdose treatment on various tracks.
近年來，薩克勒家族及其各公司一直在從不同角度開發阿片類藥物和過量治療的產品。
Last year, Richard Sackler was awarded a patent for a version of buprenorphine,
去年，理查德·薩克勒還因為研究出了一種新型的丁丙諾啡獲得了一項專利。
a drug that blocks opioid receptors, administered by mouth in a thin film.
而口服包裹在薄膜內的丁丙諾啡能夠阻斷阿片類藥物的受體。
In March, the F.D.A. fast tracked the company’s application for an injectable drug for emergency treatment of overdoses.
今年3月，食品和藥物管理局格外加快了對該公司申請一種用于緊急治療藥物過量的注射用藥物的申請資料的審查流程。
Purdue has said it is taking charitable steps to curb opioid addiction,
普渡制藥表示，他們正在采取慈善措施，遏制阿片類藥物成癮這一問題，
and last year donated $3.4 million to a nonprofit developing a nasal spray that uses the drug naloxone to treat opioid overdoses.
去年，他們就給正在開發某種使用納洛酮治療阿片類藥物過量的鼻腔噴霧劑的一家非營利機構捐贈了340萬美元。
But the funnel that Purdue once described is full, and overflowing at both ends.
然而，普渡制藥曾經描述過的那個漏斗已經滿了，而且兩端都滿了。
David Sackler spent a reported $22.5 million on a Bel Air mansion last year.
據報道，大衛·薩克勒去年在貝爾艾爾的豪宅上花了2250萬美元。
Mortimer’s Amagansett spread has been featured in Vogue.
莫提默在阿默甘西特的私人別墅登上了Vogue的封面。
Theresa Sackler was made a dame and is a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
特蕾莎·薩克勒晉封為了女爵士，現在還成了倫敦維多利亞和阿爾伯特博物館的受托人。
Last week, three Democratic senators from states hit hard by the opioid epidemic,
上周，三位來自深受阿片類藥物泛濫所害的幾個州的民主黨參議員——
Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Joe Manchin of West Virginia,
馬薩諸塞州的愛德華·馬基、羅德島州的謝爾頓·懷特豪斯和西弗吉尼亞州的喬·曼欽，
sent a letter to Purdue, insisting that it make a more formal commitment not to make money from the treatments.
給普渡制藥寫了一封信，堅持要求普渡制藥用更正式的方式承諾不再用阿片類藥物相關的治療來牟利。
"Indeed," they wrote, "it is a maxim of the common law in this country that no one should be allowed to profit from his own wrongdoing."
“事實上，”他們寫道，“我國的普通法里明文規定，任何人都不應被允許用不當行為牟利?！?/p>
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