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

informative medium-paced

4.5

Incredibly well-researched and thoroughly told. This book lays bare all the ways the Sackler family’s relentless drive for money and their company Purdue Pharma’s aggressive pushing of OxyContin contributed to the opioid epidemic and the subsequent surge in heroin. It was so frustrating to learn about the utter disregard this family had for those people whose lives were harmed by their product and how their money and influence reached out far enough to tip the hands of politicians and even the FDA in their favor. 
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