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.
End of the Sackler dynasty? How billionaire pharma family will be impacted by $6bn settlement that will rip their name from iconic institutions and force them to fess up to opioid deaths