EAN: 9781529063103

EMPIRE OF PAIN - PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE KARTONIER...

?Jaw-dropping. . . Beggars belief' Sunday Times   ?You feel almost guilty for enjoying it so
much' The Times   The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family
and their roles in the stories of Valium  OxyContin and the opioid crisis.   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
twenty-first-century greed.

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