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Controversy has followed the Sacklers over their links to Purdue Pharma, which produces OxyContin - a painkiller at the heart of multiple lawsuits relating to the US opioid crisis.
The elite British university has become the latest in a long series of institutions to publicly distance themselves from the family because of some of its members’ ties to the opioid crisis.
The University of Oxford will remove the Sackler name from its buildings and staff posts following a review into its ties with the family.
The Sackler library has been renamed the Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library.
The tainted Sackler name will no longer be seen on the walls of the Ashmolean Museum and staff posts.