01243cam a2200193 i 4500020001800000020001500018082001500033100002600048245005800074246004200132250000800174260002700182300003700209520070400246650001600950650002800966650002800994654002701022  a9780385545686  a038554568100a338.7aKEE1 aKeefe, Patrick Radden10aEmpire of pain :Secret history of the Sackler dynasty30aSecret history of the Sackler dynasty  aNil  aIrelandbPicadorc2022  axii, 535 pages billustrations ;  a"The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of SAY NOTHING 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 Sackler's were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling"-- 0aRich people 0aPharmaceutical industry 0aPharmaceutical industry  aBusiness Organizations