Empire of Pain

When the Sackler family’s pharmaceutical company unleashed OxyContin in 1996, it changed the course of US history. New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe – whose book Say Nothing won The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction – focuses on the Sacklers, a family who made untold millions from the opioid addiction while shielding themselves from blame or consequences and gaining a public profile as philanthropists.

Arthur Sackler

After medical school, brothers Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler took jobs at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Brooklyn.