![]() ![]() The author traces the life and times of Arthur Sackler and his two brothers who together built a pharmaceutical empire. Though the core of the book is an exposé of the role of the Sacklers’ businesses in fuelling the opioid pandemic in the US, Empire of Pain opens in the colourful and salubrious setting of New York in the 1920s. In Empire of Pain he turns his investigative and narrative skills to the Sacklers, an aloof but insidiously influential New York family, whose colossal fortune has derived in part from the development of a highly addictive opioid called Ox圜ontin. A staff writer at the New Yorker, Radden Keefe is perhaps best known for his critically-acclaimed book about the Troubles, Say Nothing. ![]() In his new book, Patrick Radden Keefe examines the central role played by one family in America’s opioid crisis. Remarkably, the majority of opioid deaths are linked to legally-available drugs prescribed by doctors. According to many experts, America’s opioid epidemic has been the biggest public health crisis facing the country in decades. Last year alone, more than 80,000 Americans died from overdoses, continuing a trend stretching back to the early 2000s. ![]() ![]() As the United States reels from the coronavirus pandemic which has claimed close to 600,000 lives, another epidemic has been quietly raging across the country. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |