Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

13 reviews

dwiparto's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Drug abuse

Minor: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

linneak's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

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: Drug abuse, Addiction, and Drug use

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Suicide

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: Drug abuse and Addiction

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide attempt and Suicide

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: Suicide attempt and Chronic illness

nassuada's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

Minor: Forced institutionalization

butlerebecca's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

4.25

sad that succession was only mentioned once, 13 hours in

I want to rate this a four but I’m giving it more because I think it has to do with the fact that I have already watched Dopesick and prefer the pace and arc of that, but recognize the point of this book is more Sackler and less first-hand addiction experience

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

_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, Drug abuse, Medical content, Mental illness, Classism, and Death

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

megang519's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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