Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
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Published
New York : Doubleday, [2021].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
929.2097 KEEFE
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929.2097 KEEFE
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Published
New York : Doubleday, [2021].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 535 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-515) and index.
Description
The Sacklers are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to 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 a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Keefe begins with the three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments, devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. Forty years later the template he created to sell Valium was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. -- adapted from jacket