martina.pugliese reviewed Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
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5 stars
Hard to review such a book, because there's a risk of saying banal and commonplace things. It's a really interesting book and recommended to everyone. The author reconstructs, with precise research work, the story of the Sackler family and their shady role in sparking the opioid abuse crisis in the USA, sustaining and feeding it with their own addiction to money. Not just that, but their lack of any sort of empathy and any form of human compassion that led them to manipulate the judiciary system at their advantage, for decades. It's a painful read and very informative.
