01789cam a2200373 i 4500 544155595 TxAuBib 20211221120000.0 210330s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780385545686 $32.50 0385545681 $32.50 TxAuBib rda Keefe, Patrick Radden. Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty / Patrick Radden Keefe. First edition. New York : Doubleday, 2021. xii, 535 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-515) and index. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing OxyContin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. 20211221. Sackler family. Sackler, Arthur M Family. Purdue Pharma L.P. Rich people United States Biography. Pharmaceutical industry Marketing. Pharmaceutical industry Corrupt practices. Biographies.