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How the Sackler Family Profited from Pain
The opioid epidemic didn’t just happen - it was engineered. In this exposé, we reveal how the Sackler family, through Purdue ...
Just a few years ago, the Sackler family was best known for their philanthropic giving — particularly to the arts — with their last name etched on the most prominent buildings and museums in ...
BOSTON – Tufts University on Thursday announced the immediate removal of the Sackler name from all buildings and programs at its medical school, with leaders citing the family's role in the ...
Sackler Gallery; even Westminster Abbey in London. For decades, the Sackler family name – synonymous with philanthropy – has been seen everywhere they put their money. The Sackler name may be ...
Members of the Sackler family withdrew more than $10 billion from Purdue Pharma and put the money in family trusts and holding companies as pressure intensified over the nation’s opioid epidemic ...
The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive painkiller oxycontin, have reached a $7.4 billion settlement with a bipartisan coalition of 15 states for fueling the opioid crisis ...
Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners have reached a new $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits alleging that the pain medication Oxycontin caused a widespread opioid ...
The deal, agreed to by Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family members who own the company and lawyers representing state and local governments and thousands of victims of the opioid crisis, represents ...
Purdue Pharma, the makers and marketers of the highly addictive opioid OxyContin, and the family that owned the company, the Sackler family, have agreed to pay $7.4 billion to individuals ...
By Jan Hoffman Legal maneuverings followed a Supreme Court ruling last month that denied the Sackler family immunity from liability over its role in the opioid crisis. By Jan Hoffman Plaintiffs ...
The Sackler family and its company, Purdue Pharma, reached a settlement with a coalition of 15 states in relation to their involvement in the United States opioid crisis. If approved, the January ...
WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Monday appeared divided over whether the Sackler family, which made its fortune selling a drug that fueled the nation's opioid epidemic, could be shielded from ...