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Empire of pain: the secret history of the Sackler dynasty

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Pan Macmillan India 2021 New DelhiDescription: xii, 535 p. Includes bibliography and indexISBN:
  • 9781529063073
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 929.02973 K3E6
Summary: 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 in the arts and the sciences. 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. In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed. https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781529063073/
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 44-B / Slot 2507 (3rd Floor, East Wing) Fiction General Stacks 929.02973 K3E6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 204443

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 in the arts and the sciences. 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.

In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed.

https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781529063073/

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