The Sackler Family

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The sakler family is not a monolith, but there are all kinds of animosities and rivalries. The quality that i think links arthur and richard is that when they are wrong, they refuse to see it. It's this kind of strange idea of a family that became fabulously wealthy and put its name on all these elete institutions,. But actually made its money in this way which led to human misery.

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. To buy the book click here: https://www.primrosehillbooks.com/product/empire-of-pain-the-secret-history-of-the-sackler-dynasty-patrick-keefe-subscribers/

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