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, a history of America’s opioid crisis — a public health disaster which has become so bad that in the US you are now more likely to die of an accidental opioid overdose than you are in a car accident. Perhaps the most shocking part of the story is that this catastrophic state of affairs can be definitively traced back to one family: the Sackler dynasty. In his characteristically clear and engaging style, staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe (who also wrote an incredible account of the Troubles) chronicles the family’s history, their company, Purdue Pharma, and the invention of the slow-release oxycodone tablet, Oxycontin — and how the Sackler family, through Purdue, lied and misled both the public and regulatory bodies in order to protect their eyewatering profits.
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