Meet the Sacklers: the family feuding over blame for the #opioid crisis
▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/13/meet-the-sacklers-the-family-feuding-over-blame-for-the-opioid-crisis
The #Sackler family, a sprawling and now feuding transatlantic dynasty, is famous in cultural and academic circles for decades of generous philanthropy towards some of the world’s leading institutions, from Yale University to the Guggenheim Museum in the US and the Serpentine Gallery to the Royal Academy in Britain.
But what’s less well known, though increasingly being exposed, is that much of their wealth comes from one product – #OxyContin, the blockbuster prescription painkiller first launched in 1996.
