Bibliograph

Empire of pain, the secret history of the Sackler dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe

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Empire of pain, the secret history of the Sackler dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Empire of pain

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Patrick Radden Keefe

Sub title

the secret history of the Sackler dynasty

Summary

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 in the arts and the 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-an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people. In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty - a parable of 21st century greed

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