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Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty / Patrick Radden Keefe.
Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.
The Sacklers are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Keefe begins with the three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments, devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. Forty years later the template he created to sell Valium was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. -- adapted from jacket
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385545686
- ISBN: 0385545681
- Physical Description: xii, 535 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-515) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: The taproot -- Book I Patriarch. A good name ; The asylum ; Med man ; Penicillin for the blues ; China fever ; The octopus ; The Dendur derby ; Estrangement ; Ghost marks ; To thwart the inevitability of death -- Book II Dynasty. Apollo ; Heir apparent ; Matter of Sackler ; The ticking clock ; God of dreams ; H-bomb ; Sell, sell, sell ; Ann Hedonia ; The Pablo Escobar of the new millennium ; Take the fall -- Book III Legacy. Turks ; Tamperproof ; Ambassadors ; It's a hard truth, ain't it ; Temple of greed ; Warpath ; Named defendants ; The phoenix ; Un-naming -- Afterword. |
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| Subject: | Sackler family. Sackler, Arthur M. > Family. Rich people > United States > Biography. Purdue Pharma L.P. Pharmaceutical industry > Marketing. Pharmaceutical industry > Corrupt practices. |
| Genre: | Family histories. Biographies. |
Available copies
- 33 of 37 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
Holds
- 3 current holds with 37 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Albright Memorial Library | 92 SACKLER (Text) | 50686015716777 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library | 929 KEE (Text) | 37268003112794 | AHMFL Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Altoona Area Public Library | 929.20973 KEE (Text) | 33240004948348 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cambria County Library | 929.209 K265e (Text) | 85131001760231 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Carbondale Public Library | 92 SACKLER (Text) | 50688010801034 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Dover Area Community Library | Adults 929.2 KEE Nonfiction (Text) | 34217000843326 | Adult Area | Checked Out | 05/06/2024 |
| Emmaus Public Library | 338.7 KEEF (Text) | 36446002056029 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Huntingdon County Library | NF 929.209 KEE (Text) | 30298100564859 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Indian Valley Public Library | 929.209 Keefe Bus & Econ (Text) | 39427103634663 | Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Joseph & Elizabeth Shaw Public Library | 929.2 KEEFE (Text) | 39636100429097 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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