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

Behind the Bastards

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The idea was that if it's slow release, people won't get hooked as easily. It will be less pleasurable, but it will fight pain more effectively. Richard Sackler would grow to become the head of the family and eventually the company. He appears nowhere on Purdue's website. From public records and conversations with former employees though, a rough portrait emerges of a testi eccentric with ardent relentless ambitions.

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