Just finished the book “Empire of Pain” about the Sackler family, how they got their start making Valium and then progressed to OxyContin. I knew they were a warped family but this really lays out their whole strategy of greed and self-righteousness that led to incredible destruction. It’ll piss you off, especially how they bought people at all levels of government to protect their billions. Highly recommended.
@drtifftaft I watched a doc that included part of their sentence where they had to listen to the stories of ppl whose loved ones died from overdose. We really need more criminal sentences like that. All the Beauty and Bloodshed — which is actually about an artist who tries to get the sackler name removed from The Met. Def recommend.
@DrSuzanne ooo yes thanks for the rec. She definitely appears in this book and her story sounds like an important thread in this piece of history.
@drtifftaft really??? I’d say I would be interested in that book, but I can’t take any more of those people. It makes me sick and just affects me too negatively. 