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Oxford Universitys Sackler Library is named after multi-millionaire donor Dr Mortimer Sackler, who co-owned Purdue Pharma. The company that created the drug OxyContin.

This examination of the Sackler family, purveyors of OxyContin, lays bear its responsibility for the US’s opioid epidemic

* OxyContin is one of the most notorious medicines in US history. Despite only entering the market in 1996, the highly addictive painkiller has become the focus of a prescription drug epidemic. According to the CDC [Centres for Disease Control and Prevention] nearly 500,000 Americans have died from overdoses related to it and other opioids. While public anger against OxyContin’s manufacturer, Purdue Pharma, built quickly, for a long time the identity of the owners of the privately held compa...

The war on drugs in the United States has been a failure that has ruined lives, filled prisons and cost a fortune. It started during the Nixon administration with the idea that, because drugs are bad for people, they should be difficult to obtain. As a result, it became a war on supply. As first lady during the crack epidemic, Nancy Reagan tried to change this approach in the 1980s. But her “Just Say No” campaign to reduce demand received limited support. Over the objections of the supply-f...

Patrick Radden Keefe traces the history of the Sacklers and their Purdue Pharma.

Embed TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Im Terry Gross. The one entity that has received the most blame for the opioid epidemic is Purdue Pharma, the company that makes and sells OxyContin. Its now facing over 2,500 lawsuits. Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family that owns and runs it is the subject of the new book "Empire Of Pain" by my guest, Patrick Radden Keefe. The Sacklers have been a secretive family. They never put their name on the company, but many wings of museums, universities,...

A much-anticipated book delves into the Sackler dynasty's multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical business and its staggering human cost

Sackler Family Secrets: New Book Reveals OxyContin Heirs’ Self-Pitying Emails Tarpley Hitt © Provided by The Daily Beast David L. Ryan/Getty A new book on the Sackler family—the secretive billionaires who kept America in steady supply of OxyContin—contains private emails that show the heirs complaining about how hard their lives were as they tried to downplay and shift blame for the deadly opioid crisis that left nearly half a million Americans dead. The messages, along...

Members of billionaire Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma whined in emails about falling behind financially after being blamed for fueling the opioid crisis Members of the billionaire Sackler family, who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, reportedly complained in emails about falling behind financially  Email in question dates back to 2017 when Mortimer, the son of Mortimer Sackler Sr, requested a $10million loan from the family trust The younger Mortimer wrote to a confidant...

Billionaire Sackler family to relinquish control of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma in bankruptcy plan and agrees to pay nearly $4.3 BILLION to resolve thousands of opioid lawsuits Members of the Sackler family, who own Purdue Pharma, have agreed to pay $4.3 billion to resolve lawsuits accusing them of fueling the opioid crisis  The huge payment from the Sacklers is part of a larger restructuring plan filed by Purdue on Monday to get the pharmaceutical giant out of bankruptcy Purdues plan calls...