There's a kind of miopia that comes with being wealthy and surrounded by people who think it's their jobto reaffirm your every blinkerd notion about the world around you. This is a an atobiography of three generations of a family. The family did not co operate with me, and, in fact, has been threatening to sue me since since before i started writing. And yet, increasingly what you notice, and the sackers are hardly alone in the sit is that actually, people can end up incredibly out of touch because they're surrounded by yes men who keep telling them, o yes, you're right. Even when the things they're saying are laughably off base
How did one family become associated with an epidemic of drug addiction that has caused the death of almost half a million people?
In this episode, award-winning writer and author of Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe speaks to Hannah Kuchler, the FT’s global pharmaceutical correspondent about how he uncovered fresh material on the Sacklers and discovered a modern parable of greed, corruption and cynical philanthropy.
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