Opioid Victims Struggle With Purdue Pharma Settlement’s High Bar

Ryan Wroblewski took OxyContin and oxycodone for half his life until fatally overdosing in 2018 at age 33.

His mother, Ellen Isaacs, has fought OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharmaceuticals ever since. As part of Purdue’s proposed bankruptcy settlement, qualified individual victims or families can receive payments ranging from approximately $3,500 to $48,000, based on factors like length of opioid use, addiction, overdose, and death caused by opioids.

But to get a share of the $750 million payment pool for individuals, Isaacs must show proof that Wroblewski was prescribed Purdue-branded OxyContin.

“I went to different doctors that I knew that he had ...