Sackler Family: Where Are They Now, Who Went to Jail?
Many believe that the Sackler-owned company Purdue Pharma is responsible for igniting the opioid epidemic through its drug OxyContin.
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Many believe that the Sackler-owned company Purdue Pharma is responsible for igniting the opioid epidemic through its drug OxyContin.
The Sackler family name is now inextricably linked to the crisis of opioid addiction that has the US in a stranglehold. The family headed up Purdue Pharma, maker of the painkiller OxyContin.
Pharmaceutical industry giants from Purdue to CardinalHealth are facing a reckoning over their outsized role in driving the opioid epidemic, the most devastating drug crisis to ever hit the country.
Yale University is severing ties with the disgraced Sackler family over their involvement in the opioid crisis by removing wealthy donor family's 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