The Family That Built an Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe on how the Sackler family and its firm, Purdue Pharma, ruthlessly marketed painkillers to generate billions of dollars—and millions of opioid addicts.
"Think of it, ye millionaires of many markets, what glory may yet be yours... to convert pork into porcelain, grain and produce into priceless pottery." — Joseph Choate, on what philanthropy really buys: immortality