Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty

Keefe, Patrick Radden 1976- (author.).

Summary: Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.

Record details

ISBN: 9780385545686
ISBN: 0385545681
Physical Description: print
xii, 535 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021
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Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-515) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: The taproot -- Book I Patriarch. A good name ; The asylum ; Med man ; Penicillin for the blues ; China fever ; The octopus ; The Dendur derby ; Estrangement ; Ghost marks ; To thwart the inevitability of death -- Book II Dynasty. Apollo ; Heir apparent ; Matter of Sackler ; The ticking clock ; God of dreams ; H-bomb ; Sell, sell, sell ; Ann Hedonia ; The Pablo Escobar of the new millennium ; Take the fall -- Book III Legacy. Turks ; Tamperproof ; Ambassadors ; It's a hard truth, ain't it ; Temple of greed ; Warpath ; Named defendants ; The phoenix ; Un-naming -- Afterword.