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Keefe, Patrick Radden,
1976-
Empire of pain
[large print] :
the secret history of the Sackler dynasty /
Patrick Radden Keefe.
Secret history of the Sackler dynasty.
First large print edition.
New York, NY :
Random House Large Print,
2021.
974 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [757]-926) 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"--
Provided by publisher.
20210608.
Sackler, Arthur M.
Purdue Pharma L.P.
Pharmaceutical industry
Corrupt practices
United States.
Drugs
United States
Marketing.
Philanthropists
United States
Biography.
Oxycodone
United States.
Oxycodone abuse
United States.
Large type books.
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