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Discovering anything about the Sackler family, let alone the innermost workings of its privately owned companies, is not easy. The earliest investigations into OxyContin and the emerging overdose crisis did not mention the Sackler family by name at all. Even a front-page story in The New York Times, “Cancer Painkillers Pose New Abuse Threat,” did not use the Sackler family name. This gets to a paradox at the heart of their story. The Sacklers donated lavishly to art museums and galleries, insisting in return that the family name be plastered prominently on the walls of institu...

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 with other revelations in Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, shed light on how the Sacklers s...