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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
22 reviews
hilaryreadsbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Drug abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death
Moderate: Suicide and Self harm
____emily____'s review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, and Drug abuse
Moderate: Antisemitism, Classism, Grief, and Death
Minor: Suicide and Mental illness
megang519's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Infidelity, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Death
Moderate: Cancer and Chronic illness
Minor: Suicide attempt, Antisemitism, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
internationalreads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, and Suicide
darkcornerofthelibrary's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction
Minor: Child death, Suicide, and Grief
emilybaum's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Drug abuse and Gaslighting
Minor: Grief
citrinuke's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Medical content
Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, and Suicide
mscalls's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Antisemitism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, and Medical content
caseythereader's review against another edition
5.0
- Keefe is so good at discussing complicated people and topics in a conversational, easy to follow way.
- Even if you already know the basics of this story from news reports or other books like DOPESICK, I'm willing to bet there are still anecdotes in this book about the callousness of the people involved that will shock you. You think you know how greedy people can be, and yet.
- Also, this is a sort of irrelevant side note, but if this was fiction I would have dinged the author for seemingly transparently lifting Richard Sackler's personality from the characters in THE SECRET HISTORY, haha.
Graphic: Addiction, Antisemitism, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
kasey_reads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction
Moderate: Grief
Minor: Suicide and Antisemitism