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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.
Arthur Mitchell Sackler (August 22, 1913 – May 26, 1987) was an American psychiatrist and marketer of pharmaceuticals whose fortune originated in medical advertising, profits from drug sales including Valium, and trade publications. He was also an art collector.
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Arthur Sackler died of a heart attack in 1987, years before the invention of OxyContin. Despite that fact, he appears in Painkiller as a manifestation of his nephew Richard's subconscious.
His second wife was Gertraud "Geri" Wimmer; [2] the marriage produced two children before their divorce, Mortimer David Alfons Sackler, and Samantha Sophia Sackler Hunt. In 1980, he married his third wife, Theresa Elizabeth Rowling (b. 1949), [ 11 ] from Staffordshire , England who was formerly a teacher at the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion ...
Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond Sackler were children of Jewish immigrants that were raised in Brooklyn. All three brothers became medical doctors, but the eldest, Arthur, showed a particular talent for advertising, combining both his passions by joining and later owning William Douglas McAdams Inc., an advertising firm that exclusively handled medicinal clients and pioneered the technique of ...
Madeleine Sackler is an American filmmaker and Sackler family heiress. She received an Emmy Award in 2015 [ 1 ] and was nominated for a second in 2020. [ 2 ] Her grandfather, Raymond , was one of the three Sackler brothers who created and owned Purdue Pharma , infamous for its role in the Opioid epidemic . [ 3 ]
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The timeline of the opioid epidemic includes selected events related to the origins of Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family, the development and marketing of oxycodone, selected FDA activities related to the abuse ...