Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

14 reviews

annikathereader's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Grief, and Medical trauma

yanzbanz's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

linneak's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Cursing, Terminal illness, Antisemitism, Grief, Stalking, and Alcohol

korpney's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

madisophi's review against another edition

informative

4.75

The origins of the opioid crisis told through 3 generations of a single family. How the founders of the family pioneered a new way of drug advertising and how their children would carry on the legacy ten fold. If you’ve ever heard the name Sackler before, this is a must read. The author did an amazing job researching this book and outlining this story in a way that, while long, feels concise into the point. Highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

yilliun's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Such an amazing and informative book about the family who (allegedly) fueled the opioid crisis both in the US and now abroad. The author does a great job with outlining each of these people and their motives. He certainly proves that people don’t become billionaires without exploiting others along the way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt

elri's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Suicide, and Medical content

Moderate: Chronic illness and Suicide attempt

nassuada's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Antisemitism, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Forced institutionalization

reb_knits's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Medical trauma

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Surreal, insightful, albeit and clinical deep dive into the depraved and unhinged Sackler criminal billionaire family. This book is one of many definitive proofs that the billionaire is incompatible with humanity at this point and greed is an addiction as equally destructive and demoralizing as any substance addiction if not more or worse. The lengths the rotting rich go to to keep their corrosive money are so twisted but it's also morbidly impressive how they weave the web of connections and buy their way into getting the results they want. Particularly this family who honestly wouldn't have made it without ass kissers and enablers and unscrupulous people making their perversity possible bc most of them are so offensively insensitive and stupid.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Suicide, Antisemitism, and Suicide attempt