In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, award-winning journalist and host of the Wind of Change podcast Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of twenty-first-century greed. It exposed the Sackler family as the billionaire puppet masters who ignited the opioid crisis, she later recalled. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis – an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people. It was written by Keefe and became the starting point for his book. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sciences. Like Purdue, it is all about the Sackler family: how it transformed American medicine, the key role it played in the opioid. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions – Harvard the Metropolitan Museum of Art Oxford the Louvre. Empire of Pain, Keefe explains in his afterword, is a dynastic saga. ‘You feel almost guilty for enjoying it so much’ The Times The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, Ox圜ontin and the opioid crisis. One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
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