The National Academies' Decision to Accept $19 Million in Donations From Members of the Sackler Family

The New York Times reports that the National Academies has kept quiet about its decision to accept roughly $19 million in donations from members of the Sackler family. The owners of Purdue Pharma, the maker of the drug OxyContin, and it's notorious for fueling the opioid epidemic. So a $14 million donation was actually made in 2008 by Dr. Raymond Sackler and his wife Beverly Sackler. They did this through their foundation. By the time we hit 2017, they had already donated millions of dollars. But unlike the World Health Organization, the Times writes, which was accused of being manipulated by Purdue and later retracted to opioid policy reports, the National Academia has not conducted a public review