Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

<p>The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.\nThe 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 to the arts and 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.\nEmpire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.</p>

EMPIRE OF PAIN: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE SACKLER DYNASTY

Patrick Radden Keefe

Doubleday Canada

<p>The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, Oxycontin and the opioid crisis.'Jaw-dropping . . . Beggars belief' – Sunday Times'You feel almost guilty for enjoying it so much' – The TimesThe 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, Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed.</p>

Picador

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EMPIRE OF PAIN: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE SACKLER DYNASTY

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty