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Sackler family
The Sackler family is an American family who owned the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma and later founded Mundipharma. Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding over-prescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin. Purdue Pharma has been criticized for its central role in the opioid epidemic in the United States. They have been described as the "most evil family in America", and "the worst drug dealers in history".
The Sackler family has been profiled in various media, including the documentary Crime of the Century on HBO, the book Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, the 2021 Hulu miniseries Dopesick, the 2022 Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, and the 2023 Netflix mini-series Painkiller.
Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond Sackler, the three children of Galician Jewish immigrants, grew up in Brooklyn in the 1930s. All three siblings went to medical school and worked together at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens. They were regarded as the first to fight for the racial integration of blood banks. Arthur Sackler was widely regarded as the patriarch of the family. In 1952, the brothers bought Purdue-Frederick, a small pharmaceutical company. Raymond and Mortimer ran Purdue, while Arthur, the oldest brother, pioneered medical advertising. He devised campaigns appealing directly to doctors, and enlisted prominent physicians to endorse Purdue's products. As one of the foremost art collectors of his generation, Arthur also donated most of his collections to museums around the world. After he died in 1987, his estate sold his option on one-third of Purdue-Frederick to his two brothers, who turned it into Purdue Pharma.
In 1916, researchers Martin Freund and Edmund Speyer first synthesized the opioid oxycodone, which was subsequently marketed as the analgesic Eukodal by Merck & Co. A case of "eucodalism" was first described in 1919, and its symptoms were compared to those of morphine addiction.
In 1996, Purdue Pharma introduced OxyContin, a reformulated version of oxycodone in a slow-release form. Heavily promoted, OxyContin is a key drug in the emergence of the opioid epidemic.
Elizabeth Sackler, daughter of Arthur Sackler, claimed that her branch of the family did not participate in or benefit from the sales of narcotics. Some have criticized Arthur Sackler for pioneering marketing techniques to promote non-opioids decades earlier.
In 2018, multiple members of the Raymond and Mortimer Sackler families—Richard Sackler, Theresa Sackler, Kathe Sackler, Jonathan Sackler, Mortimer Sackler, Beverly Sackler, David Sackler, and Ilene Sackler—were named as defendants in suits filed by numerous states over their involvement in the opioid epidemic in the United States.
In 2012, a member of the Sackler family bought Stargroves, a manor house near Newbury in the United Kingdom, for more than its £15 million listing price; former owners at different times of the estate have been Mick Jagger and Rod Stewart. The family was first listed in Forbes list of America's Richest Families in 2015.
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Sackler family
The Sackler family is an American family who owned the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma and later founded Mundipharma. Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding over-prescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin. Purdue Pharma has been criticized for its central role in the opioid epidemic in the United States. They have been described as the "most evil family in America", and "the worst drug dealers in history".
The Sackler family has been profiled in various media, including the documentary Crime of the Century on HBO, the book Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, the 2021 Hulu miniseries Dopesick, the 2022 Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, and the 2023 Netflix mini-series Painkiller.
Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond Sackler, the three children of Galician Jewish immigrants, grew up in Brooklyn in the 1930s. All three siblings went to medical school and worked together at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens. They were regarded as the first to fight for the racial integration of blood banks. Arthur Sackler was widely regarded as the patriarch of the family. In 1952, the brothers bought Purdue-Frederick, a small pharmaceutical company. Raymond and Mortimer ran Purdue, while Arthur, the oldest brother, pioneered medical advertising. He devised campaigns appealing directly to doctors, and enlisted prominent physicians to endorse Purdue's products. As one of the foremost art collectors of his generation, Arthur also donated most of his collections to museums around the world. After he died in 1987, his estate sold his option on one-third of Purdue-Frederick to his two brothers, who turned it into Purdue Pharma.
In 1916, researchers Martin Freund and Edmund Speyer first synthesized the opioid oxycodone, which was subsequently marketed as the analgesic Eukodal by Merck & Co. A case of "eucodalism" was first described in 1919, and its symptoms were compared to those of morphine addiction.
In 1996, Purdue Pharma introduced OxyContin, a reformulated version of oxycodone in a slow-release form. Heavily promoted, OxyContin is a key drug in the emergence of the opioid epidemic.
Elizabeth Sackler, daughter of Arthur Sackler, claimed that her branch of the family did not participate in or benefit from the sales of narcotics. Some have criticized Arthur Sackler for pioneering marketing techniques to promote non-opioids decades earlier.
In 2018, multiple members of the Raymond and Mortimer Sackler families—Richard Sackler, Theresa Sackler, Kathe Sackler, Jonathan Sackler, Mortimer Sackler, Beverly Sackler, David Sackler, and Ilene Sackler—were named as defendants in suits filed by numerous states over their involvement in the opioid epidemic in the United States.
In 2012, a member of the Sackler family bought Stargroves, a manor house near Newbury in the United Kingdom, for more than its £15 million listing price; former owners at different times of the estate have been Mick Jagger and Rod Stewart. The family was first listed in Forbes list of America's Richest Families in 2015.