The Sackler family name is now inextricably linked to the crisis of opioid addiction that has the US in a stranglehold. The family headed up Purdue Pharma, maker of the painkiller OxyContin.
Yale University is severing ties with the disgraced Sackler family over their involvement in the opioid crisis by removing wealthy donor family s name from medical school and professorships.
It was the first time, after years of lawsuits, that the family that owns Purdue Pharma heard directly from families who had lost loved ones to addiction.