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Yale University is severing ties with the disgraced Sackler family over their involvement in the opioid crisis by removing wealthy donor familys name from medical school and professorships.

End of the Sackler dynasty? How billionaire pharma family will be impacted by $6bn settlement that will rip their name from iconic institutions and force them to fess up to opioid deaths

Research details the rise of OxyContin in the U.S. and how three pieces of paper spared some states from the worst of the opioid crisis.

This prizewinning account of a band of brothers who struck gold with the opioid OxyContin is a masterfully told story of corruption and greed

It’s a morbid joke on us

Arthur M. Sackler in his office in this undated photo. (Wikimedia commons/ CC BY-SA 2.0/ Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries) Author Patrick Radden Keefe testifies before a House Oversight Committee hearing on legislation inspired by the bankruptcy case of Purdue Pharma and the members of the wealthy Sackler family that own it, on Capitol Hill, June 8, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) A skeleton made of pill bottles stands with protesters outside a courthouse in Boston, w...

The family of the late Raymond Sackler, left, who own OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma, have denied allegations on new website. Raymonds son Richard, right, was CEO.

"Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty" by Patrick Radden Keefe; Doubleday (560 pages, $32.50) ——— Long before the coronavirus pandemic, the United States was in the

"Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty" by Patrick Radden Keefe; Doubleday (560 pages, $32.50) ——— Long before the coronavirus pandemic, the United States was in the

"Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty" by Patrick Radden Keefe; Doubleday (560 pages, $32.50) ——— Long before the coronavirus pandemic, the United States was in the midst of a public health emergency that had killed hundreds of thousands of people over the last 25 years. And it hasn’t gone away. Indeed, during the pandemic, deaths from drug overdoses surged — up 26% over ...