Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty / Patrick Radden Keefe.
2021
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Title
Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty / Patrick Radden Keefe.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Description
1 online resource (xii, 535 pages) : illustrations
Formatted Contents Note
Prologue: The taproot
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
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
Legacy. Turks
Tamperproof
Ambassadors
It's a hard truth, ain't it
Temple of greed
Warpath
Named defendants
The phoenix
Unnaming
Afterword.
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
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
Legacy. Turks
Tamperproof
Ambassadors
It's a hard truth, ain't it
Temple of greed
Warpath
Named defendants
The phoenix
Unnaming
Afterword.
Summary
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
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-515) and index.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (EbscoHost, viewed April 22, 2021).
Available in Other Form
Print version: Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976- Empire of pain. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2021]
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Access provided by Berkeley Law Library
Call Number
Non-Fiction
Language
English
ISBN
9780385545693
038554569X
0385545681
9780385545686
9780385697545
0385697546
038554569X
0385545681
9780385545686
9780385697545
0385697546
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