According to the New York Times, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a nongovernmental institution, accepted Sackler donations of millions beginning in 2008.
Even as the nation’s drug crisis mounted, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine continued to accept funds from some members of the Sackler family, including those involved with Purdue Pharma.
Pharmaceutical industry giants from Purdue to CardinalHealth are facing a reckoning over their outsized role in driving the opioid epidemic, the most devastating drug crisis to ever hit the country.
Richard Sackler, 77, has put his Beverly Hills four-bed, four-bath mansion on the market for just shy of $20million. It is the third luxury property he has offloaded in recent years.
Goldin s transformation from troubled child to drug addict to world renowned photographer to savage activist was showcased in a documentary that is now up for an award at the upcoming Oscars.