Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

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

91 reviews

kristin_h_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Chronic illness, Addiction, and Drug use

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Antisemitism, and Drug use

darkcornerofthelibrary's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction

Minor: Child death, Suicide, and Grief

rjohns5's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug abuse

Moderate: Suicide

michajela1's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Suicide

ticktock's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Antisemitism, Suicide, Addiction, Death, and Drug use

alexhaydon's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Suicide, Drug use, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

rjansen282's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Minor: Suicide

albernikolauras's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.5

If you wanted an in depth book about the horrors the Sackler family has bestowed upon the world, go no farther. Keefe starts with the oldest Sackler, who revolutionized pharma by marketing directly to doctors. Then it shifts over to the younger brothers who ran Purdue Pharma and rode the painkiller train as high as they could. Oh, how far they have come from the college communist days.

As a book, it is well-written and gives excellent explanation of just how the Sacklers have made it to the position they hold today and the opiod crisis they had a large hand in creating. The book was at times a little long-winded. However, because portions of it felt like watching reality TV with the family drama, it was easy to fly through. Keefe wrapped the book up well by the end, but I felt a bit lost. Not due to any fault of his, but just the lack of punishment the family suffered, so beware of that going in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Suicide

katylizg's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Death, and Suicide

znvisser's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicide, Antisemitism, and Death