Empire of Pain (UK)

ISBN: 9781529063103
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The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis - an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people.

In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, award-winning journalist and host of the Wind of Change podcast Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of twenty-first-century greed.

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A fantastic book. The author did not want a telescopic view of the characters involved. Instead, he aimed for 'intimacy'. And he delivered precisely that.

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Satisfying Read.

This book documented the story of the Sackler's Dynasty from the beginning of their business adventure to the mountainous lawsuits because of their painkiller, which was regarded as enabling the opioid crisis in the US. The timeline is a bit here and there but overall, this is impressive investigative journalism. Read, if you want to understand about aggressive marketing.