EMPIRE OF PAIN

The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions Harvard/ the Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Oxford/ the Louvre. They a re 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 p ainkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis-an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a milli on people...[Read more]