Review

Review: Patrick Radden Keefe puts the Sackler dynasty under the microscope

By Frank O'Shea
June 19 2021 - 12:00am
A cold eye on hallowed profession
A cold eye on hallowed profession
  • Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, by Patrick Radden Keefe. Picador, $34.99.

Patrick Radden Keefe's last book was a detailed investigation of the IRA and their long campaign in Ulster. In this book, he examines the opioid crisis in the United States in the years on either side of the new century. He is focused in particular on OxyContin and its aggressive marketing by Purdue Pharma, a private company completely owned by the Sackler family.

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