Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe • 2021
Devastation Rating
medical malpractice opioids corruption America
Our Take
Three generations of the Sackler family, their philanthropy, their art collection, their systematic cultivation of the doctors who would prescribe OxyContin. Keefe writes with the patience of a biographer and the precision of a prosecutor. The family gave their names to museums and universities while their drug killed five hundred thousand Americans. The wings were named. The bodies were not.
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