Great Case A Tough Pill to Swallow The facts of the opioid crisis are hard to digest—thousands dead, thousands more addicted. Like the tobacco industry of yore, Big Pharma has deceptively pushed dangerous substances like oxycodone and fentanyl down the throats of a trusting public. The substance-use-disorder toll from both the prescription and the illicit opioids that followed is an estimated 2 million. Ellyn Hurd ’01 triumphed in a landmark trial to make perpetrators accountable. By Chad Konecky
