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Part One: The Sackler Family: America's Deadliest Drug Dealers

Behind the Bastards

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I'm Not a Murderer, I've Not Been a Killer. Ignore the Blood on My Shirt.

Richard Sackler defended himself by saying that the claim of less euphoria could be true and I don't see the harm. Telling them won't get a buzz will cause you to prescribe an addictive drug without thinking it will get them addicted, he said. In 1999, when employee Michael Friedman told him that Purdue was now making more than $20 million a week, Sackler replied instantly to his email after midnight that sales were not so great.

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