02354cam a2200421 i 4500 0 0 0 0 AIMSCL AIMSCL 2023-07-04 Cosmo Books/K661/24.05.2023 0 338.7 13654 2024-04-19 00:00:00 2023-07-04 NM BK Rs.599.00 16487 16487 9780385545686 0385545681 338.7 KEE Keefe, Patrick Radden Empire of pain :Secret history of the Sackler dynasty Secret history of the Sackler dynasty Nil Ireland Picador 2022 xii, 535 pages illustrations ; "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"-- Rich people Pharmaceutical industry Pharmaceutical industry Business Organizations BK