TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keefe, Patrick Radden 
TI  - Empire of pain: the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
SN  - 9781529063103
U1  - 338.7616151092273 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Picador
KW  - United States
KW  - Pharmaceutical industry--Corrupt practices
KW  - Pharmaceutical industry--Marketing
KW  - Families
N2  - The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions – Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis – an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people.

In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, award-winning journalist and host of the Wind of Change podcast Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of twenty-first-century greed
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