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Meet the billionaire Sackler family behind the national opioid crisis

Thursday March 7, 2019. 07:44 PM , from BoingBoing
Full Frontal's Samantha Bee presents the Sackler family, 'art patrons, cosmopolitans, and, believe it or not, almost single-handedly responsible for the nationwide opioid crisis.'
The Sacklers aren't just rich. They are rich. They have wings named after them at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, an entire museum at Harvard, a center at the Guggenheim...
So how do you get to have this many museums name shit after you? By having a fortune of $13 billion, which you, whoops, largely made by creating the opioid crisis. The Sacklers' family business, which they own in full, is Purdue Pharma, a company best known for developing OxyContin, one of the most prescribed and abused opioids in the United States.
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/07/meet-the-billionaire-sackler-f.html
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