Empire of pain the secret history of the Sackler dynasty

Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The taproot
  • Patriarch. A good name ; The asylum ; Med man ; Penicillin for the blues ; China fever ; The octopus ; The Dendur derby ; Estrangement ; Ghost marks ; To thwart the inevitability of death
  • Dynasty. Apollo ; Heir apparent ; Matter of Sackler ; The ticking clock ; God of dreams ; H-bomb ; Sell, sell, sell ; Ann Hedonia ; The Pablo Escobar of the new millennium ; Take the fall
  • Legacy. Turks ; Tamperproof ; Ambassadors ; It's a hard truth, ain't it ; Temple of greed ; Warpath ; Named defendants ; The phoenix ; Unnaming
  • Afterword.