Die Familie Sackler wurde mit dem Verkauf der Opioide zu Milliardären. (mT)

DT, Mittwoch, 17.07.2019, 23:01 (vor 1716 Tagen) @ CalBaer4102 Views

An deren Händen klebt massig Blut. Weiß nicht, wie eine Beverly Sackler nachts noch gut schlafen kann...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/13/meet-the-sacklers-the-family-feuding-ov...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-30/oxycontin-billionaires-chase-global-...


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.

The pill is stronger than morphine and sparked the opioid crisis that’s now killing more than 100 people a day in America and has spawned millions of addicts. It’s also attracted a wave of lawsuits alleging ongoing deception about the safety of OxyContin, which the company had previously admitted misbranding in a 2007 criminal case.

Two branches of the family control Purdue Pharma, which makes OxyContin but, unlike their company, none of the Sacklers are personally being sued over it.


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