Empire of Pain review: the Sacklers, opioids and the sickening of America
by Lloyd Green from on (#5GQRF)
Patrick Radden Keefe delivers a damning account of Purdue Pharma, Oxycontin and a family that grew rich
By 2016, opioids had torn a piece out of Appalachia and the rust belt. The deep drop in life expectancy among white Americans without four-year degrees would no longer be ignored. OxyContin, Purdue Pharma's highly addictive painkiller, helped elect Donald Trump.
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