Empire of Pain

The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Hardcover, 535 pages

English language

Published March 21, 2021 by Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-385-54568-6
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OCLC Number:
1243902032
Goodreads:
43868109

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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is a 2021 book by Patrick Radden Keefe. The book examines the history of the Sackler family, including the founding of Purdue Pharma, their role in the marketing of pharmaceuticals, and the family's central role in the opioid epidemic. The book followed Keefe's 2017 article on the Sackler family in The New Yorker, titled The Family That Built an Empire of Pain.

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Review of 'Empire of Pain' on 'Goodreads'

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I remember first knowing about the Sackler family when Jon Oliver did a segment on them, and I remember feeling infuriated. Little did I know about the empire that they had created, riding on the wave of people's addictions, creating and fueling the opioid crisis and absolving themselves of all the blame while at the same time, putting up their names on all the Ivy league buildings.

It's sickening to learn how the rich always get a preferential treatment by law and society.

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Review of 'Empire of Pain' on 'Goodreads'

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Tras ver un par de series (Dopesick, ficción y The Crime of the Century, documental) sobre los orígenes de la “epidemia de opiáceos” que se ha llevado por delante 450.000 norteamericanos, ahí es nada, tenía que leer esta prolija crónica de la vida y milagros de la familia detrás de todo el desastre, pues no son unos millonarios sociópatas cualesquiera.
El autor escribe regularmente en The New Yorker, y cualquiera que esté familiarizado con la revista reconocerá el estilo de sus reportajes largos: un estilo muy bien adaptado a esta clase de trabajos de investigación, ameno pero riguroso, que hace que la lectura sea verdaderamente placentera (entre exclamaciones de ¡qué hijos de puta!, etc).

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