Patrick Radden Keefe.
patrick radden keefe: SACKLER FAMILY BIOGRAPHY
empire of pain: the secret history of the sackler dynasty (2017)
Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize.
One of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2021.
The Sackler family is owned the American pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma. Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced massive lawsuits regarding overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin. Purdue Pharma has been criticized for its large role in the opioid epidemic in the United States.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Patrick Radden Keefe (born 1976) grew up in Massachusetts and attended Columbia University. He obtained masters’ degrees from the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics and has a law degree from Yale. He worked as a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine and has authored several books, including ‘Say Nothing’ the prize-winning account of a sectarian murder in Northern Ireland.
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