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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (2021)

de Patrick Radden Keefe

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Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family (Arthur, Raymond, and Mortimer), 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, OxyContin.
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Empire of pain is an incredible deep dive into the origins of the opioid crisis and the family behind it going back decades. This book was engrossing, enlightening and tragic. ( )
  begoniajune | Nov 13, 2023 |
Excellent investigation into the family behind OxyContin and the subsequent opioid epidemic. Patrick Radden Keefe is an excellent long form journalist and in this study of the Sackler family and their aggressive manufacture and marketing of a pain relief drug, Radden Keefe reports that he was sometimes overwhelmed by the amount of material he could gather. In most instances, court records from the multitude of challenges brought against Purdue Pharma. The owners vigorously denied their opioid OxyContin was addictive despite medical evidence showing otherwise. Using the family’s wealth to buy complicity from federal agencies, the legal and medical systems and employees and to buy immortality through philanthropy, the family come across as amoral megalomaniacs whose sole objective is greed.
More Americans died during the opioid epidemic than in the US’s foray into Vietnam.
Radden Keefe makes narrative non fiction so interesting.

2023 Nonfiction Reader Challenge - Health ( )
  secondhandrose | Oct 31, 2023 |
I bought this book after watching the Netflix series, "Painkiller." The book is scary. When I started the book, I questioned the backstory's relevance and Arthur Sackler's relevance. However, as I progressed through the book, I understood how his philosophy influenced the later generations of Sacklers.

Arthur Sackler was a brilliant man, and his marketing innovations and the formation of the IMS were brilliant. However, it is personality and philosophy that influenced succeeding generations.

The Sackler family was diabolical. However, they could not have become successful were it not for a pliant regulatory environment.

The book is more than a commentary on the Sackler family. It is a commentary on society, businesses, and our environment. Money cannot rule everything. ( )
  RajivC | Oct 2, 2023 |
Well Sacklers, you've CERTAINLY created a name for yourselves... ( )
  cbwalsh | Sep 13, 2023 |
I listened to the audio of this one. An interesting story, but it could have used less buildup in regards to the art collecting and such. The righteous anger towards these individuals and their company was someone dampened by the length it took to reach the actual misdeeds part of the story. Not saying it shouldn't have been mentioned at all, but I don't think we needed quite as much backstory. Since it was audio, I was occasionally confused by the family tree, which I know is printed in the first pages of the physical book. Can't hold that against anyone, just a warning to other listeners. Absolutely worth a read if you are interested. ( )
  annikaleigh89 | Jul 26, 2023 |
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Put simply, this book will make your blood boil ... The broad contours of this story are well known...But what would normally be a weakness becomes a strength because Keefe is blessed with great timing. In the past few years, numerous lawsuits filed against Purdue by state attorneys general, cities and counties have finally cracked open the Sacklers’ dome of secrecy....While other accounts of the opioid crisis have tended to focus on the victims, Empire of Pain stays tightly focused on the perpetrators....the trove of documents that has since come to light through the multidistrict litigation, which Keefe weaves into a highly readable and disturbing narrative, shatters any illusion that the Sacklers were in the dark about what was going on at the company.
afegit per Lemeritus | editaThe New York Times Book Review, John Carreyrou (Web de pagament) (May 15, 2021)
 
This story is much bigger than the Sacklers indeed. Without government regulators all too willing to cave to corporate interests, or an industry norm of putting profits ahead of patient health and safety, the Sacklers never would have gotten this far....Keefe’s book is ultimately an important record of private greed facilitated by a corrupted government. The book’s conclusion is somewhat open-ended.... But one thing that’s certain after reading Keefe’s book is that between an ever-growing death toll from overdose deaths and a generation of pain patients left to fend for themselves, much more than lawsuits and money is needed to get America out of this painful nightmare.
 
Empire of Pain, Keefe explains in his afterword, is a dynastic saga. Like Purdue, it is all about the Sackler family: how it transformed American medicine, the key role it played in the opioid crisis that now costs tens of thousands of Americans their lives every year, and the family’s belated and incomplete downfall.... Keefe has a knack for crafting lucid, readable descriptions of the sort of arcane business arrangements the Sacklers favored. He is also indefatigable.
afegit per Lemeritus | editaSlate, Laura Miller (Apr 15, 2021)
 
Keefe nimbly guides us through the thicket of family intrigues and betrayals ... Even when detailing the most sordid episodes, Keefe’s narrative voice is calm and admirably restrained, allowing his prodigious reporting to speak for itself. His portrait of the family is all the more damning for its stark lucidity. Amid all the venality and hypocrisy, one of the terrible ironies that emerges from Empire of Pain is how the Sacklers would privately rage about the poor impulse control of 'abusers' while remaining blind to their own.
afegit per Lemeritus | editaNew York Times, Jennifer Szalai (Web de pagament) (Apr 14, 2021)
 
Richly researched account of the Sackler pharmaceutical dynasty, agents of the opioid-addiction epidemic that plagues us today.... A definitive, damning, urgent tale of overweening avarice at tremendous cost to society.
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We have often sneered at the superstition and cowardice of the mediaeval barons whose thought that giving lands to the Church would wipe out the memory of their raids or robberies; but modern capitalists seem to have exactly the same notion; with this not unimportant addition, that in the case of the capitalists the memory of the robberies is really wiped out. -G.K. Chesterton (1909)
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The New York headquarters of the international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton occupy ten floors of a cleek black office tower that stands in a grove of skyscrapers in midtown Manhattan. -Prologue, The Taproot
Arthur Sackler was born in Brooklyn, in the summer of 1913, at a moment when Brooklyn was burgeoning with wave upon wave of immigrants from the Old World, new faces every day, the unfamiliar music of new tongues on the street corners, new buildings going up left and right to house and employ these new arrivals, and everywhere this giddy, bounding sense of become. -Chapter 1, A Good Name
One afternoon as I was writing this book, in the summer of 2020, I left the house with my wife and children to run an errand. - Afterword
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The opioid crisis is, among other things, a parable about the awesome capability of private industry to subvert public institutions.
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Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family (Arthur, Raymond, and Mortimer), 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, OxyContin.

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