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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.
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.