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The Sackler family is an American family who owned the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma and later founded Mundipharma. [1] Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin .
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is a 2021 book by Patrick Radden Keefe.The book examines the history of the Sackler family, including the founding of Purdue Pharma, its role in the marketing of pharmaceuticals, and the family's central role in the opioid epidemic.
Purdue Pharma L.P., formerly the Purdue Frederick Company (1892–2019), was an American privately held pharmaceutical company founded by John Purdue Gray. It was sold to Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond Sackler in 1952, and then owned principally by the Sackler family and their descendants.
The Sacklers have been described as simultaneously "the worst drug dealers in history" and the "most evil family in America," and yet despite facing multiple law suits, Painkiller ends with nobody ...
If approved, Purdue Pharma will contribute $900 million upfront while the Sackler family pays $6.5 billion over the next 15 years – a $500 million increase from the previous settlement.
The purchase of the Glidden Spina + Partners building in West Palm Beach for a Sackler family office took place in July 2020, less than two months before Purdue Pharma filed for Chapter 11 ...
Richard Stephen Sackler (born March 10, 1945) [1] is an American businessman and physician who was the chairman and president of Purdue Pharma, a former company best known as the developer of OxyContin, whose role in the opioid epidemic in the United States became the subject of many lawsuits and fines, filing for bankruptcy in 2019.
Sackler was the marketing power behind OxyContin, which was approved by the FDA in 1995, and helped launch one of the biggest pharmaceutical marketing campaigns in history along with his uncle ...